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1 y separately published work icon Julius and the Soulcatcher Tim Hehir , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2016 8943193 2016 single work novel young adult fantasy

'It was a screaming face, the skin like dried leather. Stems ran from its gaping mouth, nostrils and empty eye sockets, from which the orchids grew and spread to consume the whole statue. ‘It’s the soulcatcher,’ said Julius. ‘Like the painting in Mr Darwin’s diary.’ IT’S 1838 and London is gripped by orchid fever. When Charles Darwin’s diary turns up in Higgins’s bookshop, it’s closely followed by two ex-bodysnatchers and a peculiar fellow with small teeth. Before he knows it Julius is spinning through time and parallel realms in a race to rid London of the soulcatcher and a future too horrible to imagine. Julius and the Soulcatcher is a fabulous time-travel adventure full of richly imagined characters and intricately crafted time twists, an exciting sequel to the much-loved Julius and the Watchmaker' (Publication summary)
1 9 y separately published work icon Julius and the Watchmaker Tim Hehir , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2013 Z1929799 2013 single work novel fantasy 'Julius Higgins runs errands delivering books to customers of his grandfather's bookshop—when he's not running from Crimper McCready and his gang of bullies. Then a mysterious clock collector turns up looking for the diary of watchmaker John Harrison. Before he knows what he's doing Julius has tricked his grandfather, run away from home and done a deal with the strange man Springheel. And that's all before he finds out that the watchmaker's diary is really an instruction manual for making a time-travel device. Now that Springheel has his hands on it, catastrophe almost certainly awaits.

Julius and the Watchmaker is a fabulous time-travel adventure set in Victorian London—mostly—with an array of colourful Dickensian characters, gyrofliers, carts of offal, sharp-toothed creatures called Grackacks, and the most intricate and entrancing explanation of time and all its possible and probable futures. This debut novel is the work of a brilliant imagination, a classic in the making.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon The Watchmaker Novels Tim Hehir , 2013 Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2013- 9499638 2013 series - author novel fantasy
1 Tim Hehir Tim Hehir , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 57 no. 2 2013; (p. 8-9)
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