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Catherine Jinks

    1 gennaio 1963

    Catherine Jinks è un'autrice australiana le cui opere sono caratterizzate da una penetrante visione della psiche umana e da un magistrale controllo degli elementi di genere. Si muove con disinvoltura tra storia, fantasia e temi contemporanei, ponendo sempre l'accento sulla caratterizzazione dettagliata dei personaggi e sulle loro motivazioni. Il suo stile è spesso descritto come accessibile e coinvolgente, capace di catturare lettori di tutte le età. Jinks esplora relazioni complesse, dilemmi morali e la ricerca dell'identità in vari contesti, facendo sì che il suo lavoro risuoni con un vasto pubblico.

    Catherine Jinks
    The Genius Wars
    The Attack
    Genius Squad
    Pagan in Exile
    The Last Bogler, 3
    A Plague of Bogles
    • A Plague of Bogles

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Revenge drives Jem Barbary, a former pickpocket, after being betrayed by his mentor, Sarah Pickles. Seeking a new path, he aspires to work for Alfred Bunce, a bogler who hunts child-eating monsters in the depths of London. However, Alfred is hesitant to take on another apprentice after a near-fatal incident with his last one, Birdie McAdam. The story intertwines themes of betrayal, survival, and the dark underbelly of Victorian London, as Jem navigates his quest for vengeance and a new purpose.

      A Plague of Bogles
    • The Last Bogler, 3

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Set in Victorian London, the story follows Alfred Bunce, a bogle hunter, as he recruits Ned Roach as his apprentice to combat the child-eating bogles. Together with friends Jem and Birdie, they venture into the city's hidden corners, facing perilous challenges. The tension escalates when an old enemy resurfaces, posing a greater danger than the bogles themselves. Themes of friendship and bravery are woven throughout their thrilling and dangerous escapades.

      The Last Bogler, 3
    • Now that the Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up; the founder, Dr. Phineas Darkkon, has died; and Prosper English (who enrolled Cadel in the first place) is in jail for myriad offenses, Cadel Piggott has round-the-clock surveillance so he'll be safe until he testifies against Prosper English. But nobody seems to want Cadel. Not Fiona, his social worker; not Saul Greeniaus, the detective assigned to protect him.     When he is approached by the head of Genius Squad--a group formed to investigate GenoME, one of Darkkon's pet projects--Cadel is dubious Genius Squad can offer him a real home and all the technology his heart desires. But why can't he bring himself to tell Saul what the group is really up to? And how can Genius Squad protect Cadel once Prosper English breaks out of jail?

      Genius Squad
    • The Attack

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      A boot camp for troubled young men, a hidden identity and murderous pursuit on a remote island: beloved author Catherine Jinks is back with another heart-pounding Australian thriller.

      The Attack
    • The Genius Wars

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Boy-genius Cadel Piggot has a new name (Cadel Greenaius), a new family, and a new life. But when his best friend Sonja is attacked, it's up to him to figure out who was behind it.

      The Genius Wars
    • Evil Genius

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

      Evil Genius
    • A gripping, sci-fi thriller about a spaceship which transforms into a living organism after flying through a radiation field, and then begins to turn on the human crew as if they are parasites.

      Living Hell
    • The 'masterful' rural thriller by acclaimed writer Catherine Jinks, now available in a smaller format

      Shelter
    • Pagan's crusade

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      The first book in the highly amusing, award-winning Pagan Chronicles. Entertaining historical fiction, set in twelfth century Jerusalem -- the time of the crusades. Wham So here I am, standing in a sea of dirt, with a big mad Templar lobbing rocks at my head. Wham Like some kind of martyr. Wham He throws like a catapult. 'All right, Pagan, that's enough.' (I should damn well think so.) 'Do you see what your problem is?' Wait - don't tell me. You are. Pursued by some rather unsavoury (and unwashed) characters from the Jerusalem slums, sixteen-year-old Pagan Kidrouk has a cunning idea to avoid paying his debts - he'll join the order of the Templars. But it's out of the frying pan and into the fire, when he's assigned as squire to Lord Roland. Providing Templar escort to naive pilgrims is one thing, defending Jerusalem against the Infidels, led by Saladin, is definitely not what he signed up for An action-packed, fast-moving story enlivened by the narrator's wry reflections and warm wit.

      Pagan's crusade