Books with author Alan Graham

TOM O'KELL & THE SHAMAN'S DRUM - BOOK 1The stories are set in the Summer holidays of 1984, just before children's imaginations were stolen by mobile phones and the internet. 10 year old, Tom O'Kell is a special soul who, unknowingly, stands between the Devil and His quest for Eternal Infinity. The Devil will do anything in His power to destroy Tom and anyone else who dares to stand in His way. Join Tom and his cousins, Emily and Jake, as they accidentally journey into The Otherworld via the beat of The Shaman's Drum. Who will be taken to the Land Of Nightmares by the sabre-toothed fairies,The Narcons? Can they overcome the demonic Bildrogs and Miradons as they cross The Graveyard Of The Damned? Will Gildrude, Magmuk and Humphag make a nauseating stew out of their flesh and bones? Can they save The Chosen One? Tremble at these and other monsters in this first Tom O'Kell adventure. Tom O'Kell the little boy with a big heart.

TOM O'KELL & THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE JACKAL - BOOK 2Tom O’Kell & The Brotherhood Of The Jackal is a dark disturbing, surreal tale of Black Magic and a Totalitarian Government. Who are the Jackals? Where do the old people disappear to? Why are there so few children? Who can you trust? Tom and his friends travel to the dark planet Nivlumen, twinned with Earth. Can they save Nivlumen from the Satanic forces of evil and thus save Earth from following the same fate? Can Tom win this latest battle against the Devil in His quest for Eternal Infinity? Join Tom and his friends in another dark adventure of mystery and horror that will keep you spellbound and guessing until the very last page. Nightmares guaranteed.Sensitive children beware, for this dark tale of magic could leave you psychologically scarred. You have been warned.

Something strange is going on here! Children will really have to keep their eyes open if they want to see all the weird and wacky goings-on at the Hotel Splendide. That’s because the full moon seems to be having a peculiar effect on the hotel’s guests and staff: a portrait is being very rude, the maid’s getting sucked up by a vacuum cleaner, and the sausages have grown feet! Every spread provides a deliciously open, comic view of the hijinks, while the rhyming text directs kids’ attention to some of the crazier antics. Young readers will have hours of enjoyment searching the incredibly detailed illustrations.

During a day by the seaside, Tom, Emily and Jake find a message in a bottle saying:- Tom come quickly - You are needed.Along with their friends, Mad Mick, Anaemic Ben and Agatha Sparrow, the Vicar’s daughter, they soon find themselves in a dimension of Native American culture where only two tribes remain. The peace loving Chicuan Nation and the wicked cannibal tribe of the Kalamon, worshippers to their dark God - Kinta-Ketzel. The Great Magician, the Papanuk, lives amongst the Chicuan and has done since the beginning of time, healing the sick, exorcising demons and bringing the dead back to life. The Papanuk sees a vision of Armageddon coming to the Chicuan on the night of The Two Moons Kissing. A night when the crazy Kalamon plan to resurrect their evil skeletal ancestors for a final battle of slaughter against the Chicuan.Can Tom and his friends win this latest battle with the Devil, in his quest for Eternal Infinity, or will the Devil prove victorious? This isn’t a tale for the faint-hearted. Check under your bed before you go to sleep, we don’t want some dark demon dragging you down into bowels of Hell. Do we?

Children will really have to keep their eyes open and their wits about them if they want to see all the weird and wacky goings-on at the Hotel Splendide. That’s because the full moon seems to be having a strange effect on the hotel’s guests and staff: the cook’s preparing slimy green sludge, a painted portrait is being very rude, the maid’s getting sucked up by a vacuum cleaner, and the sausages have grown feet! Every spread provides a deliciously open and comic view of all the hotel’s hijinks, while the rhyming text directs kids’ attention to some of the crazier antics. Young readers will have hours of enjoyment searching the incredibly detailed illustrations.