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Canterbury Quake by Desna Wallace

Desna Wallace is a school librarian in Christchurch, this is her debut novel and no doubt born out of personal  experience.

Anyone would think Maddy's world had crumbled when she didn't get a cell phone for her eleventh birthday. But Maddy soon has far more important things to worry about. In the dark of night, with a terrifying rumble and a deafening roar, the world turns upside down! Suddenly, words like 'liquefaction', 'aftershocks' and 'state of emergency' bubble to the surface of her vocabulary. As Maddy navigates the bumps and crashes of life after the big quakes, she discovers how strong family ties can be, and finds friendship in the most unlikely of places. (Back cover)

For a review go to: Canterbury Quake

Knightley & Son by Rohan Gavin

Solving crime is a family business...

Darkus Knightley is a perfectly ordinary 13 year old, apart from the name, his brainpower, his fondness for tweed, and the top secret files hidden upstairs. But when a stranger from the Department of the Unexplained arrives with news of his father, ordinary is over for good...

Alan Knightley was London's top private detective until he went into a coma four years ago. Now he's woken up to discover his son has inherited the family talent - and their services are urgently needed.

Is a bestselling book making people do terrible things? Could it be linked to a shadowy organisation known as the Combination? It's clear to Darkus that two mega-brained investigators of the weird are definitely better than one. And it doesn't get weirder than this. (Back cover)

For a review go to: Knightley & Son

About the author: Rohan Gavin is an author and screenwriter based in London. He is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and his enduring love of detective fiction, cars and conspiracy theories inspired him to write this book, the first in a series.

Tigers on the Beach by Doug MacLeod

In case you can't read the back cover here it is:

Have you heard the one about the guy who lost a grandfather, but found a girlfriend? It’s funny. It’s also kind of sad. And some of the bits that are sad are also kind of funny (but only if you laugh at that sort of thing).

Adam thinks Samantha could be the one for him. But first he has to sort out his parents’ crumbling marriage, stop getting into embarrassing situations involving public nudity, find out what’s making his gran so angry, stop his little brother doing something really, really dangerous and work out what’s so funny about two tigers on a beach. It can’t be that hard, can it?