Истории Barossa

My childhood playground was a warzone. While my classmates were likely splashing around in inflatable pools in the safety of their back gardens, I would be on my bike following tanks on manoeuvres, riding alongside battalions marching across the countryside, and waving at camouflaged soldiers hiding in trenches with guns. Occasionally they waved back! Nights were regularly punctured by the sound of machine-gun fire and exploding shells, while my bedroom curtain would be illuminated by phosphorous flares. Outside our house, tanks would roll along the street between daytime traffic. Nobody took any notice. This was all perfectly normal.

Tamara Johnson has just moved from her old home in Minnesota to Minwa, an island located off the cost of Hokkaido, Japan. It's lonely for her, especially with her parents working overseas and her inability to befriend others despite being fluent in Japanese and other languages, among other things. But when her pet dog and cat end up missing one day and she goes out to look for them, she stumbles across a weird looking house that houses some even weirder looking residents. Having stumbled into a world of intergalactic affairs, planetary culture experiences and other weird things, Tamara begins to realise that maybe aliens sure are cool, in a goofy, slapstick-like humour sort of way.

BOOK ONE: Jane Gray is a gentleman's daughter awaiting a proposal. However things don't always go the way planned once paths are crossed with Captain Jack Sparrow. How will she survive with the crazy but not so crazy Captain who can't keep his hands to himself? Captain Jack Sparrow/OC