Catatan Bawah Tanah adalah kumpulan sajak yang ditulis M. Fadjroel Rachman ketika mendekam di penjara Kebonwaru, Nusakambangan, Bakorstranasda Jawa Barat, dan Sukamiskin pada paruh terakhir 1980-an. Si penyair menghadirkan perasaan, harapan, hingga kemarahan terhadap kekuasaan melalui metafora dan imaji yang kadang tak terduga. Membaca sajak-sajak di dalam buku ini akan menggelorakan hati. K…
From award-winning author Phil Earle comes the hilariously agonising account of one teenage boy’ s disastrous attempts to win the heart of the cool new girl at school. Marv’ s fourteen and his life is simple. There’ s football. And his best mate, Jimmy. Perfect. Nothing else matters until a new girl at school called Carly crashes into his life. For Marv, it’ s love at first sight, his e…
Eva's football skills make her stand out while playing at break-time at school, and her friends are desperate for her to join their local team, the Lightmoor Lionesses. But Eva was horribly bullied at her last school due to a painful skin condition, and she's terrified that the same thing will happen again if her new friends find out. Her instinct is to hide away, but can she find the courage…
The petals were the colour of blood. Of flesh. Part of Tia's heart had been placed on the track. When he drifted off to sleep, Archie could still hear it beating … Dads leave home all the time. It's not that unusual, really. Jack's dad ran off with another woman. So did Mo's. But Archie's? That's a different story - a story Archie must keep to himself. If Tia found out, let alone his mates…
Freya desperately wants to be a famous influencer, like her former best friend, Hye-jin, but no matter what she does, her posts flop. Until Freya’ s stepdad arrives home with AdelAIDE, a home-assistant robot. It quickly becomes clear that AdelAIDE is much more powerful than other home-assistant technology, and the thing AdelAIDE wants most of all is to help her new owners. Especially Freya. A…
Alex is not happy that his family are moving to the village of Noggings. He’ s even less happy when he discovers that Noggings is under siege from a vicious jackdaw called Graham who has been dive-bombing kids in the school playground and terrorising locals. Surely, it’ s only a matter of time before Alex himself is targeted. But can he defend himself against the flapping fiend and learn wh…
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself
Dalam cerpen "Robohnya Surau Kami", berdialoglah Tuhan dengan Haji Saleh, seorang warga negara Indonesia yang selama hidupnya hanya beribadah dan beribadah… "kenapa engkau biarkan dirimu melarat, hingga anak cucumu teraniaya semua. Sedang harta bendamu kau biarkan orang lain yang mengambilnya untuk anak cucu mereka. Dan engkau lebih suka berkelahi antara kamu sendiri, saling menipu, saling m…