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Perhaps, like the scars left on the world we live in, the scars left on our species will take decades to heal - centuries even. May I - we - be forgiven for what we have done." Zoe Carter: Survivor You've heard from the heroes. Now get ready for the villains... In the latest instalment of his award-winning Apocalypse Survivors series, Aussie author Matt J Pike returns to where it all began with a new origin story - this one told from the p...

That's the thing about war, it doesn't just come along when the timing is best for you. All it takes is a spark, a catalyst, an action, a misunderstanding, a sideways glance or a gesture. That's how quickly everything can change. Someone strikes. Fate sealed. Once everyone realises it's on, well, it's on." Zoe Carter: Survivor When a comet smashes into Earth, survival comes down to one simple factor. Luck. But when the world around you has cha...

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The stronger you grow, the more I notice you. The more I notice you, the more I start to get involved. The more I start to get involved, the less you're going to like it." Death. Ever had one of those days when it feels like everyone and everything is against you? Well Beath and her crew of friends feel like that pretty much all the time. Only in their case, it's true! In the latest instalment of Matt J Pike's award-winning Zombie RiZing ser...

Is there ever a good time for aliens to exterminate humankind? Sarah Hart is about to find out... To the outside world, Sarah Hart has it all, starting with the captain's insignia on her International Space Corps uniform. But from there, it's strictly downhill. Far from her dreams of military service, Hart's life at the helm of the Milky Pleasure is just as icky as its name suggests, her cruise ship full of fleshy fantasy seekers and the cre...

INDUSTRIAL ROOTS is an exceptional collection of domestic vignettes narrated by different female characters. The stories in this book concern mainly the daily experiences of blue-collar life amongst the members of a working class family in Ontario.

Ever had someone lazy steal all the credit for a group project? It sucks, doesn't it? So you can only imagine how Death - harbinger of all that is evil - feels to discover his apocalyptic-style takeover of Earth has been christened the Zombie RiZing. Like those braindead walkers had anything to do with it!!!!! Guess he's just going to have to up the ante a little bit…As the action continues in Matt J Pike's award-winning series, life is gettin...

Resources are running low as winter closes in again. Groups are getting desperate and the big moves are being made. Whatever happens next is going to change this city forever"Where do you turn when hope is lost? How do you rebuild … carry on … start again, when almost everything you know and love has been destroyed? In the fourth and final chapter of the multi-award winning series Apocalypse: Diary of a Survivor, Jack Baldwin's life has been t...

In some strange way, I feel the diary is more important than me. I will go but these words and everything and everyone they represent, must not - cannot - disappear." Jack Baldwin knows only too well what it's like to lose everything ... again and again and again. In the months after a rogue comet destroyed the planet, killing 99% of the people on it, he lost his family, his friends and nearly his sanity. Dragged back from the brink by the kin...

School's out - and that's not a good thingSurvive the first weeks of the Zombie RiZing - check, survive older and stronger survivors - check, become zombie neutralising machines - check, gain magic skills - check (well, 4 out of 6), learn how to defeat giants - check, survive outside the school grounds - check.It's a case of so far so good for our misfit heroes. They've lasted longer than most of the population - their reward - the zombie to h...

Discover where the international award-winning series all began in this Zombie RiZing books 1-3 collection. It's Beath and her band of misfit survivors versus the end of the entire world. Gulp.Since dark magic unleashed the Zombie RiZing, society has fallen apart. Food's running low, danger's running high and other survivors are just as nasty as the zombies looking for someone to - err something - to eat. But if Beath and her friends thought t...

I thought I had already seen the best and worst of humanity. But I was wrong." When a rogue comet smashed into Earth, Jack Baldwin's life changed forever. In a single night of carnage, the vast majority of the world's population was obliterated, while those who survived were all but sent back to the Stone Age. The lucky ones? They don't necessarily see it that way. Especially Jack, whose dreams of a happily ever after - well as happily ever af...

The final instalment in series one of Matt J Pike's epic zombie adventure In the months since the Zombie RiZing unfolded, Beath has proven herself to be a natural leader. She's fended off ruthless fellow survivors, kept her friends alive and fed, brought down vicious monsters and shown bravery well beyond her age. But in an epic showdown with crazy warlock Karl Dreeks, it's time for her biggest test of all - one that will decide if they all li...

A trip to the shops can be a real nightmare… Hungry zombies, angry giants and flying monsters are just another day in the Zombie RiZing. But with Beath and her friends now being hunted by a crazed warlock with megalomania on his mind, things are getting desperate.On the positive side, more and more of the gang are getting their own superpowers, as good magic rises to combat the evil. But on the bad side they're hopelessly outnumbered in the fa...

School's out - and that's not a good thing!After spending the first part of the Zombie RiZing holed up in their school, Beath and her friends have finally ventured back into the outside world - and to say things have deteriorated would be an understatement.Fortunately, salvation is at hand, in the form of the Black Oaks Shopping Centre and its mother lode of food, clothes and weapons. Or at least it would be if the bad guys hadn't gotten there...

Welcome to hell on Earth. Who would have thought Beath and her friends would ever be sad to say goodbye to school? But when it's been your home away from home since the Zombie RiZing, long hours in the science lab suddenly don't seem so bad. Eventually, however, as with all of history's greatest battles*, survival comes down to food, or more accurately the lack of it, which forces the teenage survivors and their sole teacher to head out into t...

I'm not Elizabeth any more. That was my scared name. I'm Beth, but not the normal spelling. I'm B E A T H - like death, but a better option. Beath and her band of fellow survivors would give anything for a normal day of school. Even a maths test would be better than what's on the lesson plan these days - zombies, zombies and more zombies. Ever since the RiZing began, there's been one traumatic event after another - not least of all the apocaly...

I guess it was inevitable - the end of the world we know - the end of humanity. Finding out early was a gift, surviving impact night was a miracle, living to tell the tale, well, that was the price I will pay, forever. There's no going back now." Award winning author*, Matt Pike, takes you on a journey to the end of the world and beyond, as told through the eyes of an Australian teenager, who records his experiences day by day in a survival di...

The galaxy is on the brink of war and only four dysfunctional, hormone-driven teenagers from Earth stand in its way. God help us all. Cooper Simpson can't believe his luck when an otherwise crappy day ends with an invitation to join the International Galactic Council. As Earth's first leader on the interstellar body, he figures it's got to be better than the pressures of home and troubles at school. Unfortunately, it doesn't him take long to r...

A story of mean drunks and happy ones, and of the women who often outlive them, "My Grandmother's Pill" is a rollercoaster ride through three generations of abuse and addiction. On the heels of divorce, Maude's relationship with Seamus sets the scene for her struggle to break free.