Educating Creatures: Part Two of 'The Trouble with Wyrms' Trilogy - Softcover

Williams, Mike Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1516959698 ISBN 13: 9781516959693

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Grubdale in the year 1912 - a quaint Victorian town nestled high among the sheep and turnips of Northern England, boasting a regiment of Rifles, the Zoological Gardens and the most expensive and grandest of hotels this side of the viaduct. But all is not as it seems. The hotel is overflowing with spies and the latest addition to the Zoological Gardens has eaten all the exhibits, breathes fire when it sneezes and is demanding to be called 'Your Majesty' when spoken to. All of this is as nothing to the goings on up the hill at Grubdale Towers, a ramshackle school for orphans where a bad tin of sardines has created the perfect opportunity for a certain witch and her pink 'poodle' Demetrios, to take up teaching and set education back 300 years. So while the rest of the Sisterhood continue their search for the great wyrms of legend, Rowena Carp begins her new career as a teacher of horrid little boys, and one horrid little boy in particular - Hieronymous Bede, the last Prince of Wyrm. 'Educating Creatures' - the second instalment of 'The Trouble with Wyrms' comedy recounting the exploits of a group of witches in Edwardian Britain as they search for peace, love and 'The Stately Wyrms of England,' and a good gin and tonic.

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About the Author

Mike Williams (1959 to one day when he's not looking) was born in the town of Market Harborough and due to a mix up with a local fortune teller was photographed for much of his first year in a dress. After moving to the Derbyshire Dales to escape the shame, he took to farming like a duck to liver pate and for many years seemed perpetually doused in manure, mostly from slipping on the cobbles or walking too near the cows at milking time. Educated at Buxton College, Chesterfield Art College and Trent Polytechnic, he threw away the wellington boots for a briefcase, was awarded a doctorate in 1986 and since then has lectured and published widely in plant physiology. He can be found waxing lyrical to students on the intimate contents of a leaf at Trinity College, Dublin or picking terrible fantasy football teams in his local pub 'The Villager' in Chapelizod. He is single with a cat, and a big one at that.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1516959698
• ISBN 13: 9781516959693
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118