Wendy Maddocks: 13 books

A selection of poems about those pesky adolescent years. Rather than spending that time being destructive and revelling in my rebellion, I decided to go through life-changing events shut away in my room and writing. these poems are some of what I produced. The confusion and confidence, the...

Things come out at night - scary things, magical things, things that wouldn't come out in the day. And you do things in the darkness that you would never even dream of in the light. Because, everything is permitted before the dawn. You are the night and the night is yours. Now... what will you do with it?

Katie used to run to win. Leaving home to go to college is never easy. Everything's so shiny and new and very, very scary. At least it is for Katie. Caught somewhere between the girl people expect her to be and the future she can see for herself, Katie learns the town she ran to isnt all that great. in fact, it's pretty dead. Katie used to run to win. Now she runs to live.

Being kidnapped isn't the best way to pass the time. Especially not when you should be in school. But Amber-Louise is a witch and she has bigger things to worry about.

School is like a prison. Especially when Jodies evil stepmother wants to ship her off to a boarding school, of all things. Maybe they're right and she will get a good education there but what kind of a school has armed guards in the classrooms? Or chains on the doors?

A collection of short stories for the ghost crowd. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are, whether you're ready or not. Life, death, regret, love - they all hurt and they just come as fast and terrifying as a spider. These youngsters are finding ways to deal with their lots. Because there's no other option.

Mika and Robyn have spent lifetimes learning to love this world. They love the chaos, the the kiss and the kill. They want it all - the good things and the bad. But the Professsor wants a new world, erasing all the bad. And that means them... In a world that makes people mad and then murderous,...

Somebody is always in trouble. And it's always Rose. So when she gets sent to the Principal's office, she thinks nothing of it, knowing she can convince him she's done nothing wrong. But there are men in black suits - with BIG guns.

When Katie has to cross the barrier between worlds to save her dying friend, she does so without question. There are things beyond that wall though - things she doesn't want to know about. But she locks them away and carries on. Carries on being okay. But then she learns that saving one friend might mean killing another... And that's not okay.

Battered and bruised, Katie is hoping her life is going to finally settle down. Time to study and race and breathe. But nothing is that easy. Everywhere she looks is desperation and destruction. Being in love with a dead boy is hard enough - trying to keep secrets from him... well, that's just dangerous...

Being a ghost isn't as much fun as it sounds. Given that Katie had to die to become one, it wasn't exacxtly on her list of ambitions to begin with. As if learning how to cope with being dead wasn't enough, one of her dead brothers is stalking her, intent on taking her into the Dead World. Her boyfriend...

A collection of short stories for a stormy night. Imagine a road, a clown, a kid with a gun... add a sports car, a motorbike, drugs and heartbreak. That's what The Thrill of the Chase feels like.

I’m not going to lie – enough people are doing that to you already. My student days weren’t the best days of my life but you just might be a student one day. As out of your depth as I was. So I put this book together. It's a collection of the assignments I had to do on my Creative Writing course, and the feedback my tutors gave me. This is what you should expect.