New Releases by John Marsden

Sunk by a U-boat, Attacked by Kamikazes tells the story of one man’s experiences during the years 1939 to 1947. Aged sixteen when the war broke out, Joseph Marsden worked casual shiftwork on the Liverpool docks. Lucky to survive an air raid on the night of 4 May 1941, he lost two members of his family before the Liverpool blitz came to an end. On 9 June 1941 - his eighteenth birthday - he volunteered for service with the Royal Navy. After completing basic training at Malvern, he was finally sent to his home town in April 1943 to join HMS Woodpecker, a sloop recently assigned to Johnny Walker’s famous Second Support Group. After seeing action in the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, Woodpecker was sunk during an anti-submarine patrol in February 1944, a patrol during which Walker’s ships sank six U-boats. After completing his two weeks of survivors’ leave he was recalled to Devonport. Demoralised by the thought of surviving on half-pay for six months, he lost his appetite for the fray and sought medical attention for an aural complaint, being prescribed a period of rest at a naval base in the Scottish highlands. A restless soul, Marsden did not take to the isolation on the shores of Loch Ewe, and asked to be sent to sea once more. He was posted to the Firth of Clyde to join the crew of the escort carrier, HMS Empress, aboard which he sailed for Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in December 1944. while in the Far East, Marsden saw action during Operation Stacey, Operation Bishop, Operation Livery and Operation Carson, witnessing Kamikaze attacks on allied warships. After the surrender of the Japanese, HMS Empress was detailed to help repatriate Australian and New Zealand troops, before embarking on her homeward journey to the UK. Before being de-mobbed he was transferred to the destroyer, HMS Zealous, then based at Keil in Germany where he witnessed the destruction inflicted upon Hamburg by the allied bombing campaign.

''The rabbits came many grandparents ago. They built houses, made roads, had children. They cut down trees. A whole continent of rabbits...'' THE RABBITS offers a rich and immensely valuable perspective on the effect of man on his environment. Visually loaded and told with a passion for truth and understanding, THE RABBITS aims to promote cultural awareness and a sense of caring for the natural world.

Marina no puede hablar desde que, durante una discusión, sus padres le causaron un daño difícil de superar. Tras haber pasado una temporada en un hospital psiquiátrico, ahora se encuentra en un internado. Rodeada de sus compañeras de dormitorio y clase, Marina escribe un diario y, poco a poco, la reflexión y la observación la llevan a descubrir un nuevo sentido de la vida. Para reconciliarse con sus circunstancias, deberá aceptarse a sí misma y dejar atrás el resentimiento.

Ellie og vennerne holder sig skjult i bjergkløften Hell, hvor de har svært ved at holde modet oppe. Deres land og deres hjem er blevet invaderet og besat af en fremmed krigsmagt, og deres familiers liv er i fjendens hænder. Men de unge nægter at overgive sig, og snart er de i gang med at planlægge en ny sabotageaktion. "I morgen da krigen brød ud" er en dystopisk serie på syv bind om en lille gruppe teenagere, der kæmper mod de fremmede soldater, der har invaderet og besat området omkring deres hjemby, Wirrawee i Australien. John Marsden (f. 1950) er forfatter og skoleleder. Som barn elskede han at forsvinde ind i forskellige magiske verdener, når han læste, og han vidste allerede fra en tidlig alder, at han ville være forfatter. I 2006 grundlagde han den populære Candlebark School lidt nord for Melbourne i Australien.

Galloglas were mercenary warriors from the Hebrides and West Highlands who settled in Ireland in the later 13th century and achieved an extraordinary prominence on Irish battlefields throughout the three hundred years following. Fighting as heavy infantry - highly-disciplined, mail-armoured and wielding their characteristic weapon of the long-staved war-axe - they were the decisive military component in the Gaelic Irish resurgence of the 14th century and represented the cutting-edge of resistance to Tudor reconquest two hundred years later. Found first in the service of native Irish lords in Ulster and Connacht, they were later brought into Munster and Leinster by the gaelicised Anglo-Irish earls. By the 15th century they were established as Ireland''s first professional warrior class and, like other professional classes in the Gaelic world, they were organized on the basis of kin-group. The names of hereditary commanders of galloglas entered in the Irish annals identify these mercenary warrior kindreds as the MacCabes, MacDonnels, MacDowells, MacRorys, MacSheehys and MacSweeneys, all of them families descended from the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of Argyll and the Isles - and yet their story has been called "a forgotten chapter of West Highland history". This account of the Galloglas is written from a decidedly Scottish perspective, tracing the origins of six kindreds and investigating the circumstances which brought about their relocation to Ireland. It goes on to examine the galloglas as warriors, pointing to their distinctly Norse character and proposing their battle-fury as "the last unmistakable echo of the Scandinavian impact on the Celtic west".

C''est Mandy qui envoie la première lettre. L''annonce de Tracey ne lui a pas particulièrement plu, elle n''a pas l''habitude de ce genre de truc, mais c''est un dimanche de pluie rasoir, et il faut bien faire quelque chose. Tracey lui a écrit que sa réponse était la seule valable, et que même si sa ville, Prescott, est très loin d''Acacia Park, ce serait marrant de continuer et de devenir de vraies amies par correspondance. Au fil des semaines et des mois, les deux filles se font des confidences, se racontent leurs goûts, leurs petits copains, leurs sorties, se livrent de plus en plus et s''attachent l''une à l''autre. Mais tout se gâte le jour où Mandy confie une lettre pour Tracey à un ami qui part en séjour linguistique au lycée de Prescott. Tracey n''est pas et n''a jamais été inscrite au lycée de Prescott.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1853 Edition.

Sept amis partent à l''aventure dans le bush australien. Direction : un lieu-dit nommé Hell, l''"enfer". Mais c''est à leur retour qu''ils découvrent le véritable enfer. Chaos, dévastation - leur ville a été prise en otage par des militaires, leurs familles ont disparu. Ils n''ont plus le choix. Pour survivre, tous doivent se mettre en guerre contre un ennemi inconnu, invisible, insaisissable.

From the mutli-award winning and bestselling author of the Tomorrow series. "Australia''s king of young adult fiction" The Australian You move into the most boring street in the most boring town in Australia. Tarrawagga is a hole. Its only ambition is to be a crater, and it has every chance of getting there. The last thing you expect is to have action all around you, dangerous strangers in the backyard and bullets flying past your ears. At your new school, everyone thinks you''re the biggest loser in Grade 6. Little do they know. When they realise the truth, teachers and students alike are in for the shock of their lives. Funny, gripping and full of surprises, The Year My Life Broke could be the most real book you read this year. Warning: This book is not a fantasy. It contains no superheroes, wizards, dragons, time travel, aliens or magic. Notable Book for the Children''s Book Council of Australia Awards''s Young Readers 2014

The stage adaptation of John Marsden''s award-winning, bestselling novel. ''I don''t know what I''m doing here. Well, I do really I have been sent here to learn to talk again. Sent here because my mother can''t stand my silent presence at home. Sent here because of my face ...'' She watches; she dreams. She sees more than they realise. She has worries and fears, hopes and desires. She is troubled; she is angry. Above all, she is lonely. She may be someone you know. She may be you. In So Much to Tell You she tells her story. With humour and insight, with sensitivity and strength, with painful honesty. You will never forget her. ''impressive emotional power, style, freshness and originality'' CHILDREN''S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA

The Rabbits offers a rich and immensly valuable perspective on the effect of man on his environment. It aims to promote cultural awareness and a sense of caring for the natural world.

"– Jeśli was złapią, musicie udawać, że niczego nie wiecie. Jesteście tylko dzieciakami, które działają na własną rękę. Ci ludzie są twardzi i bezwzględni, a stawka jest wysoka. Jeśli wam nie uwierzą, spróbują was złamać. Są w tym bardzo dobrzy. Spojrzałam na Fi, która patrzyła na Ryana blada jak kreda. – To kontrofensywa, którą przygotowujemy od blisko pół roku. – Chcesz powiedzieć, że idziemy na całość? – zapytał Kevin. – Wszystko albo nic? Kto okaże się prawdziwym przywódcą grupy? Czy Ellie uda się odnaleźć rodzinę? Czy wśród przyjaciół jest jeszcze miejsce na miłość? Jutro 7. Po drugiej stronie świtu to ostatnia część bestsellerowej serii, która zdobyła czytelników na całym świecie. W USA znalazła się ona na liście najlepszych książek dla młodzieży, a w Szwecji na pierwszym miejscu na liście książek polecanych przez nastolatków. W Polsce również stały się bestsellerami. "

"Tu Ellie. Chciałabym wam opowiedzieć o tych, którzy ostatnio sporo zmienili w naszym życiu. Ale może zacznę od początku... To Homer i Fi najbardziej chcieli im pomóc. Kevin, jak zawsze zresztą, na początku stchórzył. A ja nie potrafiłam się zgodzić z Fi i jej pomysłami. Fi była wściekła. A ja zaczęłam się zastanawiać. Może faktycznie nie powinnam zawsze obstawać przy swoim zdaniu? W końcu działamy razem. Pojawił się ktoś, kto nas bardzo potrzebuje. I to powinno być w tej chwili najważniejsze. Jutro to fenomen. Powieści o grupie nastolatków, którzy walczą z tajemniczym wrogiem atakującym Australię, otrzymały kilkadziesiąt nagród w Australii, Stanach Zjednoczonych, Szwecji i Niemczech. W USA znalazły się na liście najlepszych książek dla młodzieży, a w Szwecji na pierwszym miejscu na liście książek polecanych przez nastolatków. W Polsce również stały się bestsellerami. "

"Na chwilę przestałam oddychać. Wiedziałam, że nie zdołam go powstrzymać. W pewnym sensie wcale nie chciałam go powstrzymywać. Naprawdę lubiłam Lee. Może nawet go kochałam. Nie byłam pewna. Czasami przypominało to miłość. Innym razem wolałam nie mieć z nim nic wspólnego. Czułam do niego pełną gamę emocji, od dzikiej namiętności po obrzydzenie. Ale miałam wątpliwości nie tylko co do Lee. Niczego nie byłam pewna. Wszystko wywróciło się nam do góry nogami. A uczucia, które próbowaliśmy zagłuszyć, wracają, coraz silniejsze. I okazuje się, że udawanie twardych i racjonalnych nie ma sensu. Bo gdy dopuścisz do głosu emocje, nieważne staje się to, po czyjej stronie ktoś stoi. Ważne, co do niego czujesz. Jutro to fenomen. Powieści o grupie nastolatków, którzy walczą z tajemniczym wrogiem atakującym Australię, otrzymały kilkadziesiąt nagród w Australii, Stanach Zjednoczonych, Szwecji i Niemczech. W USA znalazły się na liście najlepszych książek dla młodzieży, a w Szwecji na pierwszym miejscu na liście książek polecanych przez nastolatków. W Polsce również stały się bestsellerami. ”Jutro zadaje kłam przesądom, jakoby bestseller miał być opartą na schematach banalną historią. [...] To trochę thriller, trochę sensacja - czyta się doskonale bez względu na wiek. Nic dziwnego, że powieść Jutro stała się bestsellerem.” Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało, „Gazeta Wyborcza” "

One of the greatest medieval warriors Harald Sigurdsson, nicknamed Hardrada (Harold the Ruthless or hard ruler) fell in battle in an attempt to snatch the crown of England. The spectacular and heroic career which ended at Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire on 25 September 1066 had taken Harald from Norway to Russia and Constantinople and saw him gain a kingdom by force and determination rather than right or inheritance. He was one of the most feared rulers in Europe and was first and foremost a professional soldier, who acquired great wealth by plunder and showed no mercy to those he conquered. '' Harald Hardrada: The Warrior''s Way'' reconstructs a military career spanning three and a half decades and involving encounters with an extraordinary range of allies and enemies in sea-fights and land battles, sieges and viking raids across a variety of theatres of war. John Marsden''s superbly researched and powerfully written account takes us from the lands of the Norsemen to Byzantium and the Crusades and makes clear how England moved decisively from three hundred years of exposure to the Scandinavian orbit to a stronger identification with continental Europe following the Norman invasion.

The Dane as never seen before -- in a daring, dazzling, sexy prose retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy by best-selling author John Marsden. (Age 14 and up) Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but Hamlet can’t be sure what’s causing the stench. His rage at his mother’s infidelities -- together with his greed for the sensual Ophelia and his dead father’s call to revenge a "murder most foul" -- have his mind in chaos, and he wants to scatter his traitorous uncle’s insides across the fields. But was it really his father’s ghost that night on the ramparts, or a hell-fiend sent to trick him? "Action is hot," he tells Ophelia, who lives shut up in a tower with her longings and lust. "Action is courage, and reflection is cowardly. Picking up the knife has the colors of truth. As soon as I hesitate. . . ." In this dark, erotically charged, beautifully crafted novel, John Marsden brings one of Shakespeare’s most riveting characters to full-blooded life in a narrative of intense psychological complexity.

''Compulsively readable'' New York Times Somewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. Their country has been invaded. Everyone they know has been captured. Their world has changed overnight. They''ve got no weapons - except courage. They''ve got no help - except themselves. They''ve got nothing - except friendship. How strong could you be, if the world was full of people trying to kill you? Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and Michael Grant - prepare to be hooked by the Tomorrow series.

Three short stories that focus on loss and despair ; the final story, The rabbits, was written by John Marsden.

The next book in The Ellie Chronicles, following While I Live, the post-war series featuring the immensely popular Ellie Linton, heroine and narrator of the Tomorrow series. "I held my line. I knew from the war, if not from shooting rabbits, that we were safe enough for the first moments. It is too impossible to hit a target like us from a helicopter that''s rocking and rolling and trying to find its target. But maybe this guy had new equipment or maybe he was a brilliant shot or maybe he was just plain lucky. Bullet holes tore through the ute like a huge metal-punch was suddenly and roughly slamming a simultaneous line of them from our rear to our front." Ellie has struggled to put the war behind her and lead a normal life. Although what''s normal about your parents having been murdered; trying to run a farm and go to school; and bringing up a young boy who''s hiding terrible secrets about his past? Packed full of action and high-drama, John Marsden delivers another fast-paced adventure that will thrill old fans and new readers alike.

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE AWARD-WINNING TOMORROW SERIES "The best series for Australian teens of all time." The Age "Compulsively readable" New York Times "Australia''s king of young adult fiction" The Australian Daylight couldn''t be far away, and if they hadn''t found me by then, it wouldn''t take long once the sun came up. The drops of blood would be a dead give-away. Dead in every sense of the word. With a roar like a train in a tunnel, the war enters its final days. Ellie has to be on that train. There''s no more sitting around, no more waiting. There''s only fast decisions, fast action, fast thinking. And she''d better get it right. With all their being, Ellie and her friends want to stay alive. But there''s a war out there. And it has to be won. The end is here... Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and John Flanagan will love John Marsden.

Live what you believe in... die fighting for it.The third day comes a frost... a killing frost.The enemy spreads across the land, cold and relentless. They invade. They destroy. They kill.Only the heroism of Ellie and her friends can stop them.When hot courage meets icy death, who will win through?The Third Day, The Frost is the third volume in the award-winning Tomorrow series.

The ''other royal family'' of the sub-title is first noticed in the seventh century as the Cenel Loairn, one of the principal dynastic kindreds of Dalriada, the embryonic kingdom of the Scots in Argyll. By the end of that century they had displaced the Cenel nGabrain, a kindred descended from the traditional founding dynast Fergus Mor, from over-kingship of Dalriada and clung on to power until the Pictish onslaught of the 730s. While the Cenel Gabrain extended eastward into Pictland as the MacAlpin kings of Alba, the Cenel Loairn moved up the Great Glen to reappear as hereditary mormaers of Moray, effectively kings in the north who achieved their pinnacle of ascendancy when Macbeth seized the high-kingship of Scots in 1040. His death, and that of his kinsman and successor Lulach, at the hands of Malcolm Canmore signalled the resurgence of the Cenel nGabrain and launched the Cenel Loairn into terminal decline. Yet the house of Lulach still pursued its claim on kingship through a sequence of rebellions against Canmore kings which continued into the second quarter of the thirteenth century. "Kings, Mormaers, Rebels" traces the story of the Cenel Loairn and its descendent kindreds through more than six hundred years to throw an unfamiliar side-light on the emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots.

After the war ends, Ellie must care for her troublesome ward, Gavin, while fending off raiding parties and wishing to return to normal life.

Even though the war is over and she is back on her family''s farm, Ellie Linton is haunted by the memories and now must discover how to find the enemy within herself in order to move on with her life.

Mum is a rehab counselor for people with alcohol problems. Grandma Raynor lives next door. Dad is a driver for Elgas. Then there''s me, fifteen, into a lot of different stuff. Music, surfing, animals, tennis, swimming, computer games. And my sister, Claire, and brother Toby. We re a typical Australian family. Barbeques, footy, gardening, school, Holden Commodores Then one day things change. April 26, Dad burns the toast, yells at Toby, thanks me for cleaning the cab of the truck, kisses Mum and Toby, then he''s gone April 27, the war starts May 21, the city''s in ruins, blackouts nearly all the time, food is hard to find September 13, Dad''s heard news of a boat. We might get out of here yet September 28, it is just after dawn. A boat from their Navy has found us. We waved and cried and cheered. But then, slowly, we realised they were shouting at us, telling us to go away September 30, we are in a huge prison, with razor wire all around us. The government says there''s no room for us. The Prime Minister says that if they let us out into the community it ll just encourage other illegal immigrants. The Deputy Prime Minister says we re not genuine refugees. The Minister for Immigration says we should have gone through the proper procedures and applied to come here the prescribed way. Apparently there was a queue or a waiting list or something, and we were meant to find an Immigration Office and put our names down to be considered. I guess they re right. I feel terrible about the trouble we''ve caused them.

Investigates Somerled of Argyll''s emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldom''s challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his death at Renfrew in 1164.

"Australia''s king of young adult fiction" The Australian Dreamed about you again. Like I do most nights. Tony writes letters. To Miffy. And breaks your heart. Your life''s a solo run, and even the crowd that''s cheering you want you to fall over. They love when you win, but they love it even better when you lose. Telling powerful stories has become the hallmark of John Marsden''s writing. But even John Marsden has never written a book as powerful and gutsy as Dear Miffy. [Contents may offend some readers]

James, a strange, silent boy, makes the acquaintance of old Mr. Woodford, a physicist who constructs a mysterious black box, but when the box comes into the boy''s possession, it draws him into a magical and dangerous world, in and out of time.