Books published by publisher Twevven Books

Twevven has forgotten to take his purse to the shop – not for the first time – so Mrs Flowerdale Pinchbuckle recruits him to baby sit little Joshtinkle Pinchbuckle.Unfortunately Twevven has never done any babysitting.Well, one thing leads to another, as it inevitably does, and Twevven finds himself in a position where he simply can’t see the way forward.

Twevven decides to go to the beach – it’s so hot and the water will be so cool.But – the beach is packed. People, umbrellas, dogs…But – he knows that another beach nearby should not be like this, and it isn’t.Very soon he’s splashing in the sea (he calls this ‘swimming’).And pretty soon he’s out to sea and in trouble!Fortunately he unwittingly does what a person should do when in this kind of situation, and he’s rescued by his friends. To atone for his naughtiness he, well, he does something very sensible and good.

Lissie Pendle is about trouble. But not trouble with a capital T. It's trouble which just...well, it just happens. Usually with the help of her little brother, or Scratcher and his friends, or just....things.Lissie is busy, pre-occupied, if you like, coping with events and trying to sort out and put in their proper place (ie beside and slightly in awe of her) the various eligible boys of the town. In these endeavours she succeeds quite gloriously, although she's actually the only person who understands this.In the course of telling us about a number of pretty unusual events, such as the case of the killer koala, or what happened in old-fashioned trains' toilets, or when she met a lady who inserted capital letters into her conversation, or when there was blood instead of ink in the inkwell, or....well, a pile of other things, we discover an Australia of another time.When things were clear, including the air, and life was simpler and, yes, funnier.

The world's largest dog that vanishes or re-appears out of nowhere, with hairs larger than trees.Creatures larger than mammoths that can help the tiniest.A cobweb that changes colour according to whether...Where Jess can be killed at any moment by anyone she loves, and who love her.And a decision that leads to a desperate loss.A mystery story involving a thirteen-year old girl, her unwanted visitor, her mother and grandfather, three detectives, a man of two tribes, and a bunch of Labradors with colour-coded collars.Oh, and a father who may not be really there…

A murder mystery where the murders are not the mystery. Four murderers in three of six countries. One, two, three women – four? They don’t know each other. Why did they do it? What are their stories? What led a nice girl born in Holland to murder her husband in Australia? Why did a nice girl born in an Australian desert murder her father? Why did a nice Japanese/Chinese/Australian girl murder her grandmother's husband? What drove a girl born in a Kalgoorlie brothel to invent an outback perfume? What role does a naïve young English curate play when he finds himself installed as chaplain to a battalion of volunteer soldiers in Malaya as the Japanese invade the country? And the Scottish ex-pat rubber planter who starts a train of events that land his granddaughter in a foreign prison? How does a detective recently allocated to his last case get mixed up in it all? And are there coded clues in the text? Ranging from wartime Holland to central Australia and the Burma-Thai Railway, this story takes you on an eighty-year journey leading up to the days after the women leave prison. When they begin to receive text messages... Shocking, seductive, messages offering enormous rewards. In exchange for...? How will they respond? Who is sending the messages, and why? And what is it really all about? A murder mystery where the murders are not the mystery. You'll be entertained, intrigued, puzzled, startled, pissed off, laugh, cry, learn something, visit some unusual places – but probably won't guess how it ends...And is it possible to have poetry in murder?