Katie has moved house, but doesn’t like her new home. She thinks monsters live in the cellar and is upset that the garden does not have a swing. But with the help of a silver watering can, Katie discovers wonders in the untidy garden that may just change her mind!

But I Don’t Want to Live Here

Katie did not like her new house. The floors creaked, the stairs were too steep and it had a dark cellar that looked the perfect place for monsters to live. She stood in the kitchen with a big frown on her face as she watched her mum unpack a box of plates and cups.

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It is World War One and Fred enlists underage. He is sent to the Somme battlefields but is traumatised by the horror of the front line. When he is sent to work as a stretcher bearer, he thinks he is safe and Doctor Lawrence, who he works under, quickly becomes his best friend. But this friendship is put to the test when they discover a vampire is feeding from the dead in No-Man’s Land.

Terror of the Trenches

October 1916 – The Somme Battlefield, France

Sharp wooden splinters dug into his hands, smearing beads of blood over the ladder as he climbed. A mortar shell exploded, spraying hot mud, jerking the ground, blasting chemical smoke into the trench. Fred gasped, pressing his face into the earth wall.

“Gas!” someone shouted.

“It’s not gas!” Fred coughed.

“We’ll be casualties ourselves soon!” The voice came from the trench below. “Where’s this ceasefire?”

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This is an emotional story of the strain put on a marriage after the husband is diagnosed with a serious illness. As Joe gets sicker – will his wife, Anna, be able to accept both the condition and the fact he lied to her?

Vampirism

Anna looked at Joe. Her husband was staring at the doctor, bone coloured knuckles clutching the chair arm, his eyes dark blue and bewildered. But it was his teeth, white and protruding – his teeth that gave it away.

The diagnosis was obvious when you knew what to look for, but they hadn’t been looking.

“There is no reason to fear vampirism any longer. It can be effectively managed,” Doctor Morris said.

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