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It began with Seven Ancient Wonders and finishes here. Jack West Jr. races against time to locate the remaining pieces of The Machine before the coming Armageddon. The third and final book in the riveting adventure series.
Matthew Reilly recently spoke to the Book Club about his latest blockbuster:
- There is a huge amount of ancient history, folklore and legend covered in your books. Do you spend a lot of time researching for storylines?
- I do spend a lot of time researching the history and folklore in the novels. Indeed, often some of the strangest things in the books are true! The link between Stonehenge and the Pyramids mentioned in The Five Greatest Warriors really works! I have to say that researching my novels is also fun ó not only reading up on ancient places but visiting them, too. Iíve been to Egypt, China and the British Museum. For 5 Greatest Warriors, I visited Easter Island and it was simply fantastic.
- Do the cliff-hangers keep you awake at night, working out how to get out of them this time? Have any ever beaten you?
- Yes, they do! The Five Greatest Warriors is the most complex book Iíve written since Temple. Many times I would lie awake in the night and say, ìHow do I get Jack West Jr from here to there by this time, with the Philosopherís Stone...?î But because I had plenty of time to write the book (two full years), eventually I would come up with the answer. In the end, with enough time, you can solve any puzzle!
- Will we see more trademark man-eating beasts in the new book?
- I love including man-eating beasts in my novels ó they just make them that little bit more unpredictable and fun. In 5 Greatest Warriors, the biggest dangers are rampaging tsunamis and some stupendous underground abysses. I wouldnít want to give it away, but at one point in the novel, some of the good guys travel to Loch Ness to find something...
- It has been an epic tale so far, following Jack West Jr in Seven Ancient Wonders and Six Sacred Stones. Will Five Greatest Warriors see the conclusion of the rollercoaster ride?
- Yes, The Five Greatest Warriors concludes the story begun in The Six Sacred Stones. I wanted to write a ìbigî story, something gigantic in scale and scope, which linked up many of the ancient places around the world. I still might write more Jack West Jr novels (The Four...The Three...) counting down all the way to ìThe One...î and it will be related to 6 Sacred Stones and 5 Greatest Warrioes but it will be a new story, with perhaps some new monstrous cliffhanger endings!
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Ever Bloom has not had an ordinary life, and is by no means an ordinary teenager. The change happened when she was involved with her family in a terrible car crash. Everyone died. Including Ever. But she was brought back to life by a medic, whilst the rest of her family remained dead. Since then, nothing has been the same. Something happened to Ever, and now she can read people’s minds, and see their auras – an energy field that surrounds everyone, and appears to very sensitive people as a luminous glow, the colours in which display the person’s psychological characteristics. And if that wasn’t enough, she also has an ongoing close relationship with her sister Riley, who is dead.
Being psychic is not as fun as it sounds. In fact, it is mental torture. She is inundated by waves of thoughts and emotions from everyone close by, and learns the deepest secrets of anyone she touches. And then she meets Damen, the new boy in school. Everyone says that he is extremely good looking, but to Ever he is unique – for he has no aura, and she cannot read his thoughts. The only people who do not have an aura that Ever could see since the accident were dead people. So what does this make Damen? Who, or what, is he?
Damen seems to be the centre of attention at school. Ever’s best friend, Haven, certainly wants to get to know him better, and according to the thoughts that Ever picks up from her classmates, so does everyone else as well. But why does he focus his attention on Ever? And why does he have such a strange effect on her? When Damen speaks to her, it seems like all the noise from everyone else fades away. When his hand touches hers, she feels a lingering bolt of electricity jolt through her.
Ever is drawn ever closer to Damen, but the more she gets to know him, the more mysteries seem to surround him. Can Ever find solace in their relationship, or is there a dark purpose behind Damen’s advances?
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Hetty Feather is a girl born in London in 1876. Her mother is unable to care for her, and so she takes her to a foundling hospital – an orphanage for abandoned children. Hetty writes that she remembers this happening when she was a baby, and remembers the horrible time she had at the orphanage, screaming for her real mother to come back for her, not knowing why she was given away.
But Hetty has some good luck. She doesn’t stay long in the foundling hospital, but is taken into foster care by a kind woman, who has many children of her own, and three other foster children. Hetty is suddenly part of a loving family, with other foster children Martha, Saul and Gideon, and the family’s real children, including five year old Jem, who seems so big to baby Hetty, and who is Hetty’s favourite in the family.
The family is poor, but the children are looked after well. Hetty can be naughty though, and a little selfish and cheeky at times, and she gets “paddled” with a big ladle when she has been bad. But her foster mother and father also really care for her, and, even if she doesn’t always realise it, she is in a loving home.
But good things do not always last forever. One day, their foster mother goes out for a day, taking Martha with her. In the evening, she returns home alone. For she has taken Martha back to the foundling hospital. The family has only been fostering her, until she is grown from a baby to a little girl, and healthy enough to return to the foundling hospital to live there. Hetty is very said to lose her sister, but at the time she doesn’t realise the implications for herself.
Some time later Saul is also taken back to the hospital, and Hetty realises that the same will happen to her. Will Hetty be strong enough to cope with being uprooted, and taken from a family that cares for her, to live in an institution?
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Non Fiction
- SUPERFREAKONOMICS
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The authors of the world-wide bestseller Freakonomics return with an entertaining sequel and once again challenge our understanding of the world.
- WHAT THE DOG SAW: AND OTHER ADVENTURES
Malcolm Gladwell
An anthology of Malcolm Gladwell’s best essays from the New Yorker.
- THE SERIOUS HIKER’S GUIDE TO HONG KONG
Pete Spurrier
How to escape the concrete jungle, and discover Hong Kong’s natural landscape.
- GWEILO: MEMORIES OF A HONG KONG CHILDHOOD
Martin Booth
Running amok as a boy in Kowloon Walled City.
- NEVER ENOUGH
Joe McGinniss
The murky tale of high society murder in Hong Kong, the so-called “milkshake murder”.
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Fiction
- THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST
Stieg Larsson
The explosive conclusion to the Millenium trilogy.
- THE LOST SYMBOL
Dan Brown
Robert Langdon returns, as he is plunged into the world of the Masons, with its hidden history and dark secrets.
- THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Stieg Larsson
The first book in the Swedish word-of-mouth bestseller of murders and corporate crime.
- THE PIANO TEACHER
Janice Y.K. Lee
In 1950s Hong Kong, an affair between two expatriates awakens devastating secrets reaching back to the Japanese Invasion.
- THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
Stieg Larsson
The sequel to the hugely successful, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”.
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