"Call Me Stranger" is an escapist fantasy concerns a time-travelling Cat trying to save his previously Good witch after she was misled into becoming Bad. The scenarios cover present day, North Yorkshire and the Tyneside of a thousand years ago. The central Warlock is an unprepossessing, rather boring accountant who has no idea about his Magickal Powers, so the Cat has to organise witches to make him to realise his skills. The problems come from clashes of personality between the principal characters. One witch is a kleptomania, another a dipsomania, another a smelly gypsy medium in a sacking dress held together with rope. There is also a time travelling dwarf, who met the Cat while lost in Limbo and is adopted by the Cat (with support from the others) and becomes a deputy leader under instruction from the Cat (who doesn't speak) and a child temptress when a beautiful adult woman on the odd occasion. This is when she can inspire great things from the highly strung Warlock. Singing and flying forest animals enjoy life with the help of the witch, but lord of the manor who has fallen for the Witch, ends up liaising with Cedric the Executioner and a wily, failed royal servant, gets into the mix to wreck things on all sides. By the way, "Magick" has extraordinary powers, whereas "magic" has not!!
George Lambelle is an experienced broadcaster and journalist who has interviewed many famous people, including Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, the Rolling Stones, and various stars from film, television, radio, and theater. He has also traveled to many countries in Europe. Throughout his fifty-year career as a journalist and BBC broadcaster in North-East England, George Lambelle has won many awards for the BBC in various roles such as producer, director, reporter, outside broadcast commentator, news editor, and scriptwriter for news, documentaries, and drama. He has also turned to writing fiction and producing DVDs in retirement. His novels often incorporate elements of the north-east of England, which he holds dear, with its industrial heritage and beautiful countryside. The Lambelle family has some historical connections. George Lambelle has a distant relative named Marie Therese Louise of Savory, Princess De Lambelle. The princess served as a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution, some members of the Lambelle family fled and settled in England. Unfortunately, the princess was beheaded by a mob, and her head was displayed on a pike as a message to her friend, the queen.
