Books with author Graham Joyce

What glitters is gold, but beneath it is rot.Humanity has a sprawling interstellar empire. Advances in science and the resources of countless frontier worlds have brought untold prosperity to its citizens. But how much of this wealth comes from dangerous experiments with alien technology?As an elite intelligence operative, that question plagues Gabriel Thorn constantly. When contact is lost with a mysterious research facility, he is sent to investigate. But he finds a web of secrecy and lies which extends through the corridors of power and industry, and finds himself unprepared to confront the ancient evil buried deep within.

This classic award-winning novel tells the story of young Sam who wakes one night to find the Tooth Fairy in his room. She is not the gentle figure of childhood legend, but a frightening and malevolent presence. As Sam grows from a boy to a teenager he and his friends seem like any normal group of boys. They roam wild around the outskirts of their car factory city having fun, daring adults to challenge their freedom. But Sam continues to be visited by the fairy. Is the fairy real or is she just some part of his tortured imagination and if she is, how far is she to blame for the terrible events that are to follow? Contains a 3,000-word Afterword by the author.

Sam and his friends are like any gang of normal young boys. Roaming wild around the outskirts of their car-factory town. Daring adults to challenge their freedom.Until the day Sam wakes to find the Tooth Fairy sitting on the edge of his bed. Not the benign figure of childhood myth, but an enigmatic presence that both torments and seduces him, changing his life forever.Is she real or just a figment of his turbulent imagination? All Sam knows, as he painfully grows from childhood to adolescence, is that she is never very far away...

Dozens died in the attacks, driven mad with fear by a hallucinogenic toxin…and it was all just a smokescreen.A mysterious network of saboteurs has emerged from the shadows to present the DNI with its greatest threat in recent memory. The discovery of a mole proves to be only the tip of the iceberg as the DNI’s investigation reveals a web of influence with puppets in high places – and they want Gabriel to stay out of it.Rankling at his superiors’ orders not to get involved and determined to find out the truth for himself, Gabriel begins digging for answers on his own. But as he works to uncover the network’s shadowy agenda, the DNI is also working to keep him in the dark for his own good.Because the leader of this network is his own father.

Far beyond Human space, a massive alien vessel appears, its systems badly damaged and its crew slaughtered in a mysterious ambush in the depths of the void. The emaciated survivors can only identify their attackers by one word: voidstalker.A year has passed since the events of Voidstalker, and Gabriel cannot forgive the DNI for its role in those events…or forget what he saw. Unknown to him, his enigmatic superiors in the DNI are pressing ahead with plans for his family long in the making, and his wife Aster will find herself trapped between their web of conspiracies and forces determined to thwart them.Meanwhile, the DNI receives disturbing intelligence about why the alien vessel was attacked in the first place, and Gabriel is sent deep into uncharted space to investigate. Far beyond the safety of Humanity’s frontiers, Gabriel is forced to contend with sinister alien forces who will stop at nothing to bend an ancient abomination to their inscrutable wills.Humanity is not the only race that would sacrifice everything for absolute power.

‘A deft canny novel about growing up, cunningly disguised as a highly readable fairy story: a modern parable of loss and maturity’ Iain M. Banks A story about a boy growing up in England in the 1960s - with one singular difference: He's haunted by a demonic Tooth Fairy that only he can see, but whose malignant influence spills over onto his family and friends. When seven-year-old Sam Southall, loses a tooth, he's visited that night by a sinister, rank-smelling, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy. Slowly, The Tooth Fairy teaches Sam to make mischief at school, then insists that Sam have his friend Terry sleep over. That same night, Terry's father shoots his wife, his other children, and himself . . .

A taut, otherworldly thriller set in contemporary England. Caz and her best friend Lucy have a secret. Late at night, they break into strangers? homes?not to steal anything, just for the rush. Then Caz gets caught in the act by elderly Mrs. Tranter, and before she knows it, the old woman has snapped a silver bracelet around her wrist. Caz can?t remove it, no matter what she does; and then it becomes part of her, sinking into her skin like a tattoo. Worst and most unsettling of all, it?s given her an unpredictable kind of ESP. She can see into people?s inner lives, whether she wants to or not. The Exchange is gritty magical realism with a sense of humor?just right for fans of Holly Black and Sonya Hartnett.

Doogie is fascinated by the new girl at school. She's beautiful, super intelligent and incredibly she seems to like him. Unsure of how to impress her Doogie turns to the internet for advice with very mixed results. Just as things seem to be going well Doogie sees something which throws him into confusion. Is he going crazy or could Angelica really have a forked tongue? Are her freaky parents really human? Could she be an alien or is that just how girls are?! This Graham Joyce young adult novel is one of his funniest but dealing with possible extra-terrestrials is not always a laughing matter.

Sophie and James have nothing in common. He goes to a posh private school. She goes to the comprehensive school next door. But then they discover that they are two of those rare people who have clearvision and who have the ability to see into a world of spirits and demons. Both of them receive messages through dreams and visions. When they receive a desperate appeal for help from someone who had died many years before, they join together to try to destroy a force of evil. They soon discover that demon hunting is a dangerous enterprise and that their attempts to help a trapped spirit may put both their lives in peril.