Best Selling Books by John Light

Neighbours are a nuisance - said the people who lived next door to Katherine, Mark and Roger.

Who or what is responsible for the eerie howling from the night-darkened fells that disturbs the inhabitants of Darckmoor? Is there malice at work in the world of small presses? Why is there an eight-foot-high toadstool on the back of a truck speeding along a remote byway? When a new statue by a reclusive artist is displayed in a small gallery in London's East End, is it the beginning of something bigger? And what is the cause of the sorrowful single-mindedness of the long-term resident of an old-fashioned hotel?

Poems and drawings for children of miscellaneous ages.

A holiday afloat - can Dad keep everyone from falling in the water?

On a blissfully bright day, Joshua decides to fly his cardboard box down Oak Tree Hill. Unfortunately, his attempts all end in failure. Joshua experiences many emotions. Suddenly, a new kid shows up. Will Pip have the answer Joshua needs to make his cardboard box fly?

Excerpt:Huge British battleships glided along the Thames, their cannon swiveling to cover an oddly shaped object that had struck near London's outskirts, just inland from the famous waters by only a few yards. The shape glowed red hot as it sputtered there from water that had struck it from its impact and corresponding explosion of dirt and buildings, causing some of the Thames to wash over it momentarily.The scream of sirens, air raid sirens.Men and women, dressed in black with emergency arm bands on, scattered to hustle civilians to safety, fearing the Germans had struck with some fancy new kind of deadly weapon.But they were wrong.They were all wrong.It wasn't the Germans at all.It wasn't a super bomb.It was an attack from Mars.And it was the 2nd one!

There was no government and no police force on the planet Dorado, so when Bizman Edlin Borrowitch was murdered, his insurers paid City Investigators to find the culprit and they plumped for Accountant Ros Kernwell. She hired Tec Sarn Denson to clear her and he found plenty of suspects among the family and associates of the Bizman. All he needed to do to save his client was to find enough evidence to reduce the Legal Company computer's calculation of her guilt probability to below the conviction threshold. Unfortunately Tec Denson was troubled by ideas of his own about that abstract and irrelevant concept, justice, and distracted by the assistance of the beautiful Seelya Koto.

In THE ENIGMAS OF HUGO LACKLAN, Alexander Dunkley relates some of the puzzling anecdotes of his social anthropologist friend. Though quite unacademic, these questions, and others, intrigue Hugo. In THE VANISHING PUNK, how did the punk thief vanish after his crimes? And we can only wonder what the reason was for the odd behaviour of the FIVE ELDERLY GENTLEMEN. Then, in THE EXPENSIVE DAUB, why were hideous daubs selling for such high prices from a London gallery?