Best Selling Books by John Light

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?

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

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!

Poems and drawings for children of miscellaneous ages.

In the worlds beyond, the evil dead plot to dominate the Universe of the living through their armies of thralls. Recognising that the people of Lavandrel hold a pivotal position in the history of the Cosmos, they unleash their might against the planet in a bid not only to control the future but even to remould the past. Obedient to the dying counsel of Lavandrel''s greatest sage. Prince Alorn of Born leaves his embattled world to seek aid from the Elder World. Guided by the Roamanies of Doth and braving the Wizard World of Drel, he encounters the people of the Masque and threads the maze cave of Sufindral in search of the Elder World and entry to the worlds beyond to meet the greatest challenge of all. This is the final novel in the Chronicles of Lavandrel

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?