Alan Temperley

When the orphaned Harry is sent to live with his elderly aunts, he gets the shock of his life. His aunts are far from the dull, frail old ladies he's expecting - Harry discovers he's living with a gang of cat-burglars! Now all he has to do is persuade them to let him join in their daring adventures...

Harry and the Wrinklies

The brilliant sequel to Harry and the Wrinklies - another fast-paced and thrilling adventure! When Harry wakes up in the middle of the night to find that Lagg Hall has been set on fire, he hasn't time to be terrified. He has his dog, Tangle, to rescue, and he must raise the alarm and make sure his aunts and their gang of criminal mates are safe. It's only after the fire is out that they start to think - who was it who wanted them dead?

Harry and the Treasure of Eddie Carver

Ragboy, Rats and the Surging Sea

Deck Boy is a full-blooded and comical adventure story for readers of all ages. It is set in the mid 1970s, the last great days of the British merchant fleet when ships were beautiful, the dock basins were crowded, navigation was by the stars, and the thronging crews were very different from the crowd you met in the high street. When Ben Thomson, nearly fifteen, plays truant from his expensive boarding school, he has no idea that he will never return. All he intends is to visit his old home in Westport, but a chance encounter in a steamy workmen’s café on the Dock Road turns his life on its head. Before he knows it, Ben finds himself escaping through a window, assaulted in an illegal drinking den, threatened by a murderer, changing his name and his appearance, forging documents, getting tattooed, making a host of new friends – and enemies – and outward bound on a voyage to the far side of the world. Surrounded by a crew of loyal, eccentric, gay and violent shipmates, Ben needs all his wits and courage to keep one step ahead of the law and something infinitely more dangerous. In the space of a few months, Ben develops from a lonely, self-conscious schoolboy into a resourceful young man making decisions that may result in life or death.

Deck Boy

When Harry stays with his great aunts at Lagg Hall, he thinks he's in for a really dull time. However, his aunts and their elderly friends aren't quite how Harry expects them to be. They climb trees, drive fast cars, and are planning something late at night when Harry is in bed.

In this collection of fifty-one tales from the land of galloway, Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling. The tales are wide-ranging: heros, ghosts and solway smugglers; witches, martyrs, mermaids and fairies; reivers, monsters and colourful rogues. Here are Billy Marshall, King of the tinklers; Sawney Bean, the murderous cannibal; young Robert the Brube on the run in the heather; Trost, last of the Picts, who kept the secret of heather ale; the legend of Mons Meg; Claverhouse and Lagg, persecutors of the Covenanters; the famous poterguist of Rerrick; and many more. Simply told and unadorned, the stories bear the flavour of the region – mountain and forest, silver rivers and lochs, the wild Solway Firth, and some of the most beautiful rolling countryside in Britain. Originally these traditional tales – ranging from rustic comedy to horrific murder – were told in crofts and rural cottages. They grew naturally out of the rich past and the land and the lives of the people – wonderful stories. And they are still as alive today as when they were first told.

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Tales Of Galloway

Anahita lives in the golden city of Samarkand. All her life she h been surrounded by love and laughter, but one day Zohak Ali arrives out of the desert and wants the beautiful girl as his slave. Furious that her father rejects his demand, the evil magician vows to punish the whole city.

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