Fleeing Earth with the Sentinels in hot pursuit, Tim Townsend, his sister Coral and their friends face more perils and fiendish plots when they travel to Eltheria. What should be a triumphant homecoming turns into a cat-and-mouse battle with new, sinister forces ranged against them.Meanwhile, an older, darker, more powerful enemy begins to stir ...

Things are getting desperate for Tim, Coral and their friends trapped on Earth after the destruction of their spaceship. Now the slimy, slug-like, mind-reading Sentinels have formulated a fiendish plan to exterminate them all, one by one.Deep within their secret base, they plot and plan, reckoning without the courage and ingenuity of the Earthlings. But word is getting out about strange happenings around Rata. A nosy camera crew arrive, the army are called in, someone goes missing, and someone talks ...Desperate to keep to keep a lid on things, Tim and Coral struggle against overwhelming odds and find themselves caught up in a spectacular battle that could destroy them all.Picking up from where Too Many Zeros left off, Lair of the Sentinels continues the adrenaline-filled excitement and heart-stopping action.“A rollicking good read for pre-teenage children and their parents. It’s funny, fast-paced and captivating. A real...

WINNER OF THE REED / NORTH & SOUTH FICTION AWARDI weave fictions round my life. Alternate realities where I am the master of every situation ... I know my alter-ego better than I know myself, or anyone else for that matter, and yet he is a mirage, not-even-ghost, the fiction of a fiction.Steven Spalding is a mild-mannered, overweight civil servant with a humdrum, solitary life. But he has a secret: a rude, wise-cracking, anarchic alter-ego named Eric Dombey.Buried in hilarious tales of comic genius, in a variety of formats ranging from diary entries to movie scripts, a truer picture of the real Steven begins to emerge, and all is not as it seems. As events in his life accelerate and slip out of control, the boundaries between the real and the unreal begin to blur.In this cleverly crafted novel, Geoff Palmer makes us reconsider the whole concept of fiction and reality, while providing keen yet sympathetic insights into the...

Tim and Coral Townsend are sent to stay on a remote farm when they make a discovery that will change their lives forever: aliens! Suddenly they’re plunged into a wild adventure full of incredible new technology, intelligent mice and friendly aliens in need of help.But their new friends aren’t alone. Evil agents of a darker power are watching their every move, preparing to strike with mind parasites and killer robots. Now Tim, Coral and their friends must outwit their enemies and find the courage to face the darkest, most deadly force in the universe.Get ready for an adrenaline-filled adventure with a cast of zany characters, furious action and a heart-stopping climax.With Too Many Zeros, the adventure begins ...