Janet Roberts lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has written many books for young adults. She has also been a popular columnist for The Age newspaper and a writer of philosophical essays for a New York publication. Janet enjoys her life very much in contact with her beautiful grandchildren whom she adores.
Janet’s novella Heavens Above! is also published by Austin Macauley.
“My sister cleans her bedroomIn twenty seconds flat.She sweeps the dirt into a pileThen underneath the mat.”A selection of comic verse on such subjects as fraught relationships, untrustworthy professionals, quirky pets and even quirkier family members.Nothing too dark or serious here, just a set...
The Afterlife: in the Tribunal of the Dead, the recently deceased Glaikit, an incorrigible cheat in life, is about to be sentenced to a new and very tedious form of existence by Judge Prudence Drinkwater. The sudden appearance of the chariot-driving hero Sleekit allows Glaikit to cheat her fate one ...