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Welcome to the virtual home of TA Blezard, published author of children's fiction and non-fiction. Writer, book-lover and long-suffering parrot owner!

"It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them."

JULIAN BARNES, Flambert's Parrot

New for 2024

Fifteen-year-old Adie is painfully aware that he is not like other boys. For one thing, there’s his father, Craig Cooper – hell-raising former front man to Brit rock legends, Voodoo Mary. Adie has lived in his shadow all his life. Then there are the voices, which start after the death of his beloved grandfather. This traumatic loss seems to have unlocked the terrifying and unwelcome ability to see spirits. Adie is trying to block them all out.

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NO MAN'S LAND

For fifteen-year-old orphan Tom loss is everywhere. And love is a risk. But then he meets Penny and risks losing everything.....

Rootless and restless, Tom travels from country to country with his guardians on their dive boat. Sailing into another new port, he is surprised to meet up with someone from his past, along with a group of other misfits, all miles from the countries they call home. But can friendships last, especially with a cyclone bearing down on them?

A LEATHER JACKET

"I stood in front of my bedroom mirror...wondering what I saw...wondering what kind of life this jacket had had before now."

Ever wanted to be someone else? To re-write your own story? Maddie Finch has and now she knows exactly how to do it.

But the world she writes herself into is one she is horribly unprepared for and Maddie finds herself hurtling towards an ending she is struggling to control.

SECRETS

Published by The Women's Press 2002

Subject: Secrets

From: Briony Newman

Hello everyone. I've read your messages before but never actually posted one myself-until now. The problem is my stepfather. He beats my mother. I'm scared for Mum because she never seems to learn. But then I get angry-because I don't want to spend my whole life looking out for her.

MOHAN ALONE

Published by Simon & Schuster 1988

In trouble at home and at school, fifteen year old Mohan feels confused and rejected...

And when his parents decide that their two younger children should 'go home' to India to be educated, Mohan is painfully aware that they don't want his brothers to grow up like him.

CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION, MYSTERIOUS WORLD SERIES

Published by Macdonald Young Books, 1998-1999

A series of 4 books on The Future, The Supernatural, Extraterrestrials and Fantastic Creatures.

SPACE

Published by Hodder Wayland, 2000

Answering such questions as:

If you were sucked into a black hole, would you travel through time?

and

What would it be like to live on Mars?