Michael Nation Book order (chronological)

Based on the screenplay by Melissa Mathison. What do you do when you're lost, millions of miles from home, surrounded by frightening creatures? You do what the Old Botanist did when he was accidentally left behind on Earth. First you find a friend... Filmaker STEVEN SPIELBERG and novelist WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE together create a magical story about two unforgettable friends: a gentle being from another world who is stranded on Earth, hunted, afraid and alone....and a ten-year-old boy who finds him and takes him home. --from back cover of paperback version

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Contemporary / American English (Available April 2008) Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. You murder my father, and I'll murder your wife,' he suggests. So begins Guy's journey into a world of madness, lies and death.

When Kitty's mum gets a new boyfriend, everything changes for Kitty. He is taking her mother away from her, but what can Kitty do to get her old life back?

A one-armed man kills Dr Richard Kimble's wife, but the police believe Kimble killed her and arrest him. Kimble escapes and goes searching for the real killer, but Detective Gerard is hunting Kimble and wants him dead or alive.

We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! The psychologists would call it folie a deux... Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith's first novel, and adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock. 'A true original in crime fiction' The Times