The Floater
A collection of eight tales of the macabre and the unexpected.
THE FLOATER and THE SMILE have a hint of the supernatural.
The Reluctant Bride
Something happened in Gabriella Stevens’ earlier life that caused her to distrust men – men, that is, of a certain type. At 24 she has never had a serious relationship and is still a virgin.
Office colleague Rod Nicholson personifies that type. Too handsome, too confident, he is the focus of every female in the Company. Except Gabriella.
She sees him as an amoral and unprincipled sexual predator.
The Girl At Table Nine
People. Young, old, adults and children. Kind, cruel, loving and malevolent. All of them are recognizable in our individual worlds, and in this new collection of short stories Joy Wodhams brings them to life.
In the title story, THE GIRL AT TABLE NINE, two painfully shy people find happiness together IN LOVE AND WAR, a middle-aged wife finds a devilish way to discourage her wayward husband’s secretaries.
THERE’S A LION IN MY BED!: Adventures with an invisible talking lion
t’s not easy sharing your bedroom and your bed with a full-grown and very hungry African lion, and when Buster goes on the rampage through the streets of Bristol Danny is horrified.
The Family on Pineapple Island: The adventures of a large and lovable family on a tiny island
When Fred can take time off from growing vegetables for the mainland shops he delights in building extensions to the family’s little wooden house. Alice (who has a Grade 6 certificate) delights in her piano, is a splendid cook and an expert in making do and mending. Jack is practising hard to become a world famous rock star, Jenny is addicted to the competitions that appear in newspapers, magazines and on the back of cornflake packets, and the others … well, read the rest in this warm hearted, humorous story. If you enjoyed The Waltons, The Darling Buds of May and the Durrells, let the Scarrots introduce themselves.
Me, Dingo and Sibelius: An ugly duckling finds love and success
How Charlie, with the help of a sexy lawyer, succeeds against a background of envy, hostility and eventually a tragedy is the theme of this novel.
This warm, feel-good, romantic story is set in Liverpool, beloved birth city of its author Joy Wodhams, and will appeal to all ages. Liverpool is the setting for two more of her 13 novels, The Boy With My Face, and The Boy Who Could Fly.
THE GIRL IN THE ATTIC: She is alive. Oh, if only I was alive too!
When writer Abi and her family move to the abandoned Edwardian mansion the ghost of Helen longs to make Abi her friend, but how can she contact her, and how can she keep all the others away? As Helen becomes more possessive and her powers increase, accidents begin to happen. And through Abi’s writing, Helen’s terrible story begins to emerge.
Emails From Heaven: A Life or Death Fantasy
Zoe Harper is dead. Everyone tells her so, but Heaven’s latest arrival refuses to believe them. She’s young, only 20 years old, in the throes of a new romance, and has a brand new career in journalism – so new that she hasn’t even collected her first month’s salary. She’s determined to return to Earth, […]
Cabbage Boy: A misfit and a mutant. What happens when they meet?
Nick is an unlikely hero. Almost sixteen, he longs to be taller, braver, more athletic, more popular with the girls, more one of the guys. He also suspects that he’s the only one in the class who’s still a virgin. Let’s face it, he’s a worrier, with more than a dash of OCD. At home he cleans up his messy sister’s bedroom, colour codes his Mum’s spice jars and his Dad’s garden equipment, measures various parts of his anatomy every Sunday morning and has to have his Full English Breakfast arranged in the same order each week. Life brightens when he finds a girlfriend and falls in love with her. They’ve been together for four weeks and he’s kissed her eighteen times, according to his notebook. But when Nick meets a strange and scary mutant and is forced to protect and hide him, his life becomes unbearable.
The Boy With My Face
13-year-old Simon is determined not to accept his mother’s new partner Philip and his future stepsister, 11-year-old Lissie. His new life on Philip’s farm in the North of England is very different from his previous life in London, and he hates his new boarding school.