Bill Nagelkerke: 5 books

What demons sit on YOUR shoulder?Andrea McNamara, daughter of Catholic parents with a lifetime of 'protest' behind them, and granddaughter of an Irish matriarch, has finished university and is looking forward to starting her new life.But then she meets Chris, her former boyfriend,...

Heaven and Hell are the same place . . .When you see the impossible, who do you tell? What do you say?Twelve year old Jacinta has spent her childhood accompanying her father to work, and spending time in the bigwigs’ stand, high up above the sports field, watching her dad go about his chores, while...

Emily’s aunt and uncle come to stay, following a house fire. They take over Emily’s room, something that Emily is less than pleased about. All that they bring with them, apart from the clothes they wear, is a valuable, Victorian, Penny Dreadful. Uncle Raymond is a curmudgeonly character, a writer...

A bus accident in the mountains . . .Seeing the sights of Paris . . .Busking in the busy mall . . .Getting a tattoo . . .A cold stranger . . .Turning points, of one sort or another.Many of these stories and poems for young adults have been previously published in magazines and anthologies.

Athens has been lumbered with an embarrassing name, a father obsessed with house renovating and a younger brother equally obsessed with emulating his hero, the magician and escapologist Harry Houdini. Add to the mix - a talent quest, a crush Athens has on a boy named Troy and a series of unsettling,...