A project takes people back to nature and a nomadic lifestyle but is this going to be the idyll they think it will be?
Category Archives: Adventure story
Obesseus the Mighty Muncher by D.T. Tucker
A fun book for middle graders, which is humorous and a little bit bonkers, of an unlikely hero and his fight to save Snackland and dumplings
My Twelve-Year-Old Wife: Erased Memories by Dan Uselton
Time-travelling husband attempts to save wife by going back to their high school years, making for tension-filled story of sinister pursuit
The Spiral Archive by Pieter Hendrik
An unusual novel which speaks of the power of storytelling and mythmaking as a way of sharing the human experience
The Bangle Bombers Blast Banks (3rd book in Cockroach the Superhero series) by Steve Frederick
Meet Cockroach, an unlikely superhero as he combats bank robbing bad guys in a book speckled with humour and in jokes
Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
The first in a trilogy of books about Gabriel Dax, which charts his progression from orphaned boy to popular writer – but is he really sought for his writing talent?
Time Lines by Guilio Savo
I can’t describe this book in a few characters! Surreal, life-affirming, adventurous, spooky, daring? Savo has written a truly unique book!
The Ballad of Midnight and McRae by Jess Lederman
This is a book as wide and deep as the western landscape in which it’s set, full of imagination, bound together with love and faith
Truth and Transformation (Taking Wonderland) by Martin Baynton
Revisit Wonderland where the curious elements of Carroll are given a twist all of their own by Baynton. Dark, fast-moving and entertaining!
The Lost Color of Namiri by Elisabeth Fowler
Do not mistake this for a fantasy book about big cats: it is much more. A tense tale with a strong message of tribal survival & resilience.