Elaine Forrestal: 4 books

Then Kip gets angry too. ‘You just don’t know what it’s like. ‘’What?‘Our eyes blaze at each other. He looks away. ‘I have to watch my back, that’s all,’ he says, more gently.Henny can’t work Kip out. Where is his fam­ily? Where does he live? Why do waves of sad­ness and anger...

‘I can’t fit in there,’ I said, straightening up to my full 154 centimetres.There was an almighty crash some­where above us. A shower of dust and grit fell through the air vent in the ceil­ing and suddenly all four of us were scram­bling in, press­ing close together under the kitchen table.A...

‘I’m sure I heard it,’ I said. ‘It’s Axle, howling.‘’Axle’s gone, Tori.’ My uncle shoved his secateurs in the back pocket of his baggy trousers. ‘I know it’s hard,’ he said. ‘Especially when we’ve never found his body.’But Tori has heard a dog howling. Did he imagine...

Anderson and his men came in under the stern of HMS Shannon, jammed her rudder and scrambled up her ropes. But the captain had been looking out for them. He had orders to capture Anderson if he came within range, and to take him to Hobart for trial. At pistol point, the captain called on Anderson...