Books with author David Lambourne

Evolution Z – Stage One! A Zombie Novel in the Vein of “The Walking Dead” After a dramatic plane crash in the wilds of Maine, the survivors of Augusta Airline Flight 303 believe the worst is behind them. Captain Raymond Thompson organizes the group and attempts to get help, but soon it becomes clear that our familiar world has ceased to exist. Everything seems to fall apart, and no one knows the source of the catastrophe. However, the survivors soon learn a basic truth: If you make even one mistake, you pay with your life and become one of “them”... An absolute must for all fans of “The Walking Dead”! This exciting zombie apocalypse thriller is a perfect fit for all fans of Manuel Loureiro, Nicholas Sansbury and Mark Tufo!

Evolution Z – Stage Two! Discover the sequel to the successful first part of this zombie novel series in the vein of The Walking Dead! After the group of survivors around Ray and Scott have barely escaped death, their next goal is to reach Fort Weeks. The military base is supposed to offer safety and refuge — but making their way across the apocalyptic landscape tests all of them to the extreme. The survivors constantly face new challenges, danger lurks everywhere, and soon they don’t know whom to trust anymore. Then suddenly everything changes for them when it is revealed how and why the virus was unleashed on an unsuspecting world... Get Evolution Z – Stage Two now. An absolute must for all fans of The Walking Dead!

Evolution Z – Stage Three! Discover the new sequel to the successful first two parts of this zombie novel series set in a similar vein as The Walking Dead! Ray and the others are ordered to get the family of Dr. Abbadon out of the survivor camp Sanctuary and back to the USS George Washington. The former scientist for Vita Invicta claims to have worked on developing the virus and, in exchange, offers his expertise in developing a cure for the plague. Even though they still don’t know who can be trusted, Ray and his team head out for Sanctuary. They are driven by the hope of finding their families there, but this turns out to be a terrible mistake... Get Evolution Z – Stage Three now – An absolute must for all fans of The Walking Dead!

It is a few years in the future. A couple of vicious android warriors, originally bought as Christmas presents, have moved in with Mr and Mrs Wilmot and their children Petra and Robin, and are now threatening to make them prisoners in their own semi-detached house. The family’s last hope lies with an unarmed rabble of ordinary toys led by a scruffy teddy-bear called Hodge. Courage, ingenuity and ordinary decency are pitted against plain brutality powered by state-of-the-art technology and an alarming dash of magic. Which side will win?It all starts two days before Christmas, with Mrs Wilmot and her cranky mother battling their way through the crowds in Toymania, the biggest toyshop in Britain. For Robin's main present Mrs Wilmot has decided to buy one of a new range of android warriors called ‘The Warlords of Pandemonium’, advertised as ‘the toy of the decade’. The chosen Warlord is Saffron Fangbyte, the cheapest model in the range. Petra’s main present is a talking ‘Sweetheart’ doll with an American accent. In another part of the toyshop Granny Blenkinsop is looking for an antidote to all this ‘gimmickry and trash’ -- an old-fashioned teddy bear a child can turn to in times of trouble. After some searching (for very few toyshops stock articles of this description any more) a bear with a damaged ear is discovered in a dark corner of the stock-room. His name is Hodge.Meanwhile behind the scenes the resident wizard who advises Nemesis Toys, the manufacturer of The Warlords of Pandemonium, is warning of horrendous consequences if the warrior toy is not immediately recalled. Not surprisingly Mr Stryde, the shop’s owner, refuses to play ball: the Warlords are his best-selling line, and if they are removed from sale he stands to lose virtually the whole of the year’s profits. On Christmas Day, just as the wizard predicted, the Pandemonium begins....At first Saffron Fangbyte, aided by the scheming Deborah Sweetheart, finds it easy to bully the other toys into doing his bidding. Eventually the brave and resourceful Hodge manages to deactivate Saffron, only to see him replaced by a series of ever more dangerous Warlords, bent on revenging their comrade and taking over not just the toy-room but the entire household.This is a hilariously funny book for children aged eight to twelve who do not automatically believe everything they are told. Like Roald Dahl’s CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY it describes a world in which children are sometimes wiser than the grown-ups who are supposed to look after them. A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THIS BOOKWhen David Lambourne’s children’s novel THE MUSCLEMEN first appeared in 1991, it was highly praised for the “muscle and spark” of its writing. Later that year it was selected for inclusion in the Independent's 'Christmas Books for Children' supplement. Early reviewers were impressed by its acidly satirical attack on modern consumerism, and in particular the way the toy industry has come to be hi-jacked by movie and TV spin-offs, as well as high-tech gadgetry and violent computer games. THE MUSCLEMEN belongs with a long line of children’s books about talking toys reaching back to Victorian times, including the work of writers like E. Nesbit, Mrs Molesworth, F. Anstey, L. Frank Baum, Enid Blyton, Rumer Godden and Russell Hoban. Its themes and cast of characters are curiously similar to those of Pixar’s first TOY STORY film, which appeared four years later. Now extensively updated and rewritten, this wise and funny children’s book is available on Kindle under the title NEW TOYS.NEW TOYS is the first part of a projected trilogy about the products of Nemesis Toys called THE FATESTONES. The second volume in the trilogy will be published on Kindle later this year under the title TRADITIONAL TOYS