Down and Under: Tales from the Antipodes is a humorous look at the author’s travels in Australia and New Zealand. The book explores the history of both countries before and after white settlers arrived, and covers such diverse subjects as food, the Australian obsession with camping and the dangerous creatures that lurk on land and in the ocean. Amanda has taken six trips Down Under and finds the people, places, natural landscapes, wildlife and colourful Aussie characters endlessly fascinating.
War and Peacetime is the third in Amanda Spottiswoode’s time travelling series. When Kate is thrown backwards from 1977 to 1913, she finds herself in a world where the lack of a simple antibiotic can result in a life threatening illness. A nurse in modern times, she ‘retrains’ and finds herself in the war zone of First World War France. There, a chance meeting rekindles the love she felt for her modern fiancé, who had died in a car accident.…
27 Days once again explores the imponderables of time travel. The heroine finds her life turned upside down when she shifts 8 years into the future. No longer recognised as the respected doctor she was, she has to start life again without any qualifications and with no one except her twin sister recognising her for who she is. At the point of a total breakdown, she encounters the myths and legends of West Coast Natives, and during a trip to…
The Blue Plastic Shoes is set in the parallel universes of 1905 and 2016 and tells the story of a modern and educated woman who, while on a sailing holiday, gets hurled back in time to 1905.
Here a couple of new reviews for ‘Up in Arms’. If you have any children or grandchildren between the ages of 8 and 12 on your Christmas list, this book, and the two previous ones in the series, make great gifts for the young readers in your family. You can buy ‘Up in Arms’, ‘Brother XII’s Treasure’ and ‘The Silver Lining’ from Amazon or direct through ‘Where to buy’ on this website. Up in Arms was also chosen to be…
Up in Arms is filled with intricate details of the geography of the West Coast of Canada and of the skills of boating, with a special emphasis on aircraft piloting, especially float planes. The text flows well and keeps the reader’s interest as the kids (most of them now teens) develop their characters and pursue their interests and dreams. But the most interesting aspect here is the spotlight on Indigenous nations, their historical mistreatment, and the feelings of non Indigenous…
The Chocolate Lily Award, BC’s young readers’ choice award, was awarded in three categories on June 9, 2017. The Chocolate Lily Awards encourages grade school students to read and enjoy fiction by BC’s authors and illustrators. “Brother XII’s Treasure” by Amanda Spottiswoode was one of the five short-listed titles in the Novel Category (Grades 4-7). READ MORE
