Fourteen-year-old Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone with their hypnotic Caps
John Christopher Book order
Sam Youd, also known as John Christopher, was a prolific author whose works spanned early science fiction to gothic romances and detective thrillers. Driven by a fascination with the solar system, his imagination flowed into a wide array of genres, earning him renown as a pioneer of young adult dystopian fiction. Yet, at the heart of his writing lay a profound interest in human dynamics and character psychology, regardless of the catastrophic scenarios or isolated settings he devised.
- 1990
- 1983
The World in Winter
- 95 pages
- 4 hours of reading
The Fratellini Winter they had called it, after the Italian scientist who had first detected the decline in solar radiation. The seasons pass and the cold bites ever harder. The Thames freezes over, stocks of food and fuel run low, and London falls under martial law. That first arctic winter, it seems, was only the beginning, the herald of the incoming Ice Age. Andrew Leedon has problems of his own. Forced out of his marriage, he joins the exodus of the privileged few with the necessary influence to escape to the warmth of the African sunshine. But gone, he finds on arrival in Lagos, are the glory days of Empire. The desperate influx of European refugees has enabled the natives to turn the tables on their former colonial masters: it is white men now who, from their shanty-town hovels, serve at table and labour on construction sites, white women who empty the bed-pans and sell their bodies. Their Nigerian bosses, meanwhile, looking towards the lawless, ice-bound north, have their own plans for expansion.
- 1973
Beyond the Burning Lands
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
After his father's death Luke lives with the Seers in the Sanctuary waiting for the time he will be able to take his rightful place as Prince of Winchester
- 1973
- 1972
In the Beginning
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
In prehistoric times, a boy from a hunting tribe meets a girl from an enemy tribe of farmers. A reader for students of English as a foreign language
