AustLit

'When John moves to the city with his family, he has no idea quite how much his life is about to change. He befriends the boy next door, Gino, whose Italian family seem enormously exotic. One evening, John, while riding his bike home, is mysteriously attacked by a swarm of bats. The incident raises the suspicions of Gino's grandmother who begins muttering darkly about the evil eye and vampires, which John and Gino find hilarious - at first. Then, they meet Elizabeth, Lavinia and their friends who are cute but something about them seems strange. And when the boys are trapped in an old house by a savage storm suddenly the girls appear and the boys begin to see the reasons for the Grandmother's suspicions.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In an out of the way, old fashioned book shop, an eccentric proprietor defends his books from the predations of time, insects and occasional customers. Upstairs, his crippled Granny remains addicted to tinned Irish stew and televised rock n' roll wrestling, until, that is, she is invaded by a bizarre literary book worm which infects her with a desire for TS Eliot. The Book Keeper loves his books and will do anything to protect them...even murder, but his tiny world is turned around when he catches his granny chewing on a few volumes of TS Eliot...'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 21/1/2013)