Imprint
- Hachette Australia
Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
I should tell you, Dear Reader, that I would never have run away, nor joined the crew of the 'Rattlesnake', nor gutted a hammerhead shark, nor eaten the brains of a cuscus, nor been captured by head-hunters, had it not been for the cold-blooded cruelty of my Aunt Bertha.'
The final book in the exciting Sam Silverthorne trilogy.Sam sets off to the exotic isles of the Indian Ocean in search of a shell whose deadly venom could provide the antidote for all known toxin but one member of Sam s expeditionary party has gone along for another reason - murder!
Gary Crew
GARY CREW is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He has won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year four times and his readers have come to expect shadowy, surprising, incredible stories that must be read, and read again.
STEVEN WOOLMAN (1969-2004) completed a degree in Design and Illustration at the University of South Australia in 1990 and was always fascinated by bizarre fantasy. For the illustrations in The Watertower, his fifth published book, he used a combination of acrylic paint and chalk and pencil on black paper.
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