Dreamside — (1991) Publisher: It began as an experiment in college — a seemingly harmless investigation into “lucid dreaming,” the ability to control one’s dreams. But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now, ten years later, the dreams have returned — returned to upend their adult lives. The dreams of youth fade, if you’re lucky. If not, they can consume you… and will.

Dark Sister — (1992) Publisher: Alex and Maggie think they live in an ordinary townhouse until they discover a previous occupant’s diary — a narrative of Wiccan practice and herb-lore. Compelled to investigate further, Maggie begins to discover strange powers within herself.

House of Lost Dreams — (1993) Publisher: Mike and Kim Hansom, sell everything they own, give up their jobs, and land up on the Greek Island of Mavros, so that Mike can fulfil his ambition of painting full time. They rent a villa on the beach, it has no amenities to speak of, but the most “marvellous view in the world”. They make friends with people in the village and are as happy as Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden; Ah! then enters, the serpents, the scorpion’s, the saint, in “Metal Shoes”, the shepherd and the mysterious “Watcher on the hill”. From then on everything changes, and we find out the evil intent the house on the beach has on its tenants.

Requiem — (1995) Publisher: Following the death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to Jerusalem in search of a friend from his college days. But the haunted city, divided by warring religious groups, offers him no refuge from guilt and grief. As he wanders through the streets and the archaeological sites, a mysterious old woman appears to him, delivering messages that seem beyond comprehension. Then a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, kept hidden by an elderly innkeeper, appears to offer the key to understanding the woman’s pronouncements. Perhaps the spirit of Mary Magdelene is trying to reveal to Tom the hidden history of the Resurrection. And perhaps the truth is even stranger…

The Tooth Fairy — (1996) Publisher: After Sam Southall looses his first tooth and places it under his pillow, he awakens to the tooth fairy sitting on his windowsill. But it is not the same tooth fairy from legend.

The Stormwatcher — (1998) Publisher: In a restored farmhouse, James and his French wife Sabine, their two children and their friends sit uneasily. All are implicated in a tragedy which, in a matter of days, will sweep aside the web of deception they have built around their lives.

Indigo — (1999) Publisher: As he tries to faithfully execute his father’s will, Graham Joyce is drawn into a bizarre and frightening world, moving among the ruins of ancient forces in a journey of the flesh and spirit.

The Facts of Life — (2002)  Publisher: The Facts of Life tells the story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the second world war. Presided over by an indomitable matriach the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the blitz, war work and on into the hopeful postwar years and a bizarre interlude for one of them in a commune. And through it all wanders the young son of one of the sisters, passed from sister to sister, the innocent witness to a life that edges over into the magical and the world of the fey.

The Limits of Enchantment — (2005) Publisher: The story of a young woman in the midlands in 1966. A woman who may be a witch. She and her family live on the margins of society. Nevertheless her family life is stifling and she seeks freedom with more outsiders, a group of beatniks, but fights to find acceptance there also. And all the time she is struggling with her fey powers.

Do the Creepy Thing — (2006) Publisher: Fourteen-year-old Caz and her friend Lucy do the Creepy Thing. It’s a bizarre version of ‘chicken’. They break into houses while folk are asleep, challenging each other to ‘do a creepy’. To ‘do a creepy’ you approach a sleeping person in the dark, in the dead of night, putting your nose one inch away from the sleeper’s face for a count of fifteen seconds. One night, Caz breaks into the house of Sara Metherall, a lonely old woman shunned by the community. Lucy challenges Caz to do the Creepy Thing. Caz rises to the challenge. She creeps, she counts. But just before she completes the count of fifteen the old woman opens her eyes and clamps Caz’s wrist with a cold silver bracelet. The next morning the bracelet has disappeared, but left in its place a tattoo. A tattoo that holds a curse. While her life disintegrates around her, Caz has to find a way of lifting that curse. Or returning it to the place it came from…

The Exchange — (2008) Publisher: Caz and her best friend Lucy have a secret. Late at night, they break into strangers’ homes — not to steal anything, just for the rush. Then Caz gets caught in the act by elderly Mrs. Tranter, and before she knows it, the old woman has snapped a silver bracelet around her wrist. Caz can’t remove it, no matter what she does; and then it becomes part of her, sinking into her skin like a tattoo. Worst and most unsettling of all, it’s given her an unpredictable kind of ESP. She can see into people’s inner lives, whether she wants to or not. The Exchange is gritty magical realism with a sense of humor — just right for fans of Holly Black and Sonya Hartnett.

The Devil’s Ladder — (2010) Ages 9-12. Publisher: The time has come… Sophie and James’ paths don’t cross. Why would they? She’s from rough Abbey South School and he’s your typical Castle Gate posh geek. They have nothing in common. Or so they thought. For the truth is that they both share a special and dangerous gift: they are savants. Innately sensitive to the presence of ghosts and spirits, they share strange visions and visitations from frightening messengers. With no one else to turn to, they must come together to understand the meaning of the spectres and apparitions that they sense all over their town. Why have they been chosen? Who are these unhappy souls calling from afar? What dangers lurk behind the shadowy eyes of strangers? And can Sophie and James overcome the presence of evil to save their friends and themselves?

Some Kind of Fairy Tale — (2012) Publisher: Acclaimed author Graham Joyce’s mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return twenty years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she’s been, will challenge our very perception of truth. For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents’ home and there, disheveled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It’s a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara’s story just does not add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished. Award-winning author Graham Joyce is a master of exploring new realms of understanding that exist between dreams and reality, between the known and unknown. Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a unique journey every bit as magical as its title implies, and as real and unsentimental as the world around us.

The Year of the Ladybird — (2013) Publisher: It is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had. And soon there is a terrible price to be paid for his new found freedom and independence. A price that will come back to haunt him, even in the bright sunlight of summer. As with SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE, Graham Joyce has crafted a deceptively simple tale of great power. With beautiful prose, wonderful characters and a perfect evocation of time and place this is a novel that transcends the boundaries between the everyday and the supernatural while celebrating the power of both.

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