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Night on Terror Island
- Author: Philip Caveney
- Category: Fiction
About Night on Terror Island
Kip’s dad owns a scruffy single screen cinema, The Paramount. Struggling to survive in an age when multiplexes rule the world, the cinema seems doomed… But then Mr Lazarus arrives, and introduces himself as the new projectionist. He’s very old, and intriguing, and when he sets up his equipment the cinema seems to come to life. Suddenly the images seem brighter and sharper, and the audience numbers are better than ever before. But one day Kip and his friends are watching The Island - a scary adventure set on an island ‘peopled’ by sabre-toothed tigers and hungry cavemen - when Kip’s little sister Rose appears on screen: frightened, bewildered, and more than a little cross!
Kip quickly puts two and two together, runs up to the projection suite and confronts Mr Lazarus, who demonstrates the Lazarus Enigma: a device that can project things, and people, into the world of the movie itself. When you’re in the film, everything is real. Real bullets, real swords, real monsters. But beware… if you don’t get out by the time the closing credits roll, you’ll be trapped in the film forever! Can Kip get to Rose before the sabre-toothed tigers. And if he can - how is he going to get back?!
About the Author
Philip Caveney was born in North Wales in 1951. The son of an RAF officer, he spent much of his childhood travelling the length and breadth of Britain and spent several years in Malaysia and Singapore. Over the years he has worked as a musician, a copywriter and a chef and through the 1990’s, he published 12 novels for adults.
His first novel for children, SEBASTIAN DARKE: PRINCE OF FOOLS, was published by Random House, in January 2007. The first in a series of books featuring the seventeen year old hero of the title, it was followed by SEBASTIAN DARKE: PRINCE OF PIRATES (2008) and SEBASTIAN DARK: PRINCE OF EXPLORERS (2009). The books have been sold to 18 countries around the world.
THE EYE OF THE SERPENT is the first book in a new series featuring 15 year old adventurer Alec Devlin, published by Random House in August 2008, and set in Egypt. In THE KINGDOM OF THE SKULL, due in August 2009, Alec finds himself lost in the Mexican jungle, where he discovers an Aztec city, unchanged for hundreds of years… and where human sacrifice is still practised.