- Where do the children fly in the starship Velociraptor, and what do they find on the far side of the moon?
- Why are Gordon and Grace visiting a convicted murderer in the dead of night at HM Prison Manchester?
- How do fairies cope with growing old, and what has that to do with the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Myddleton?
- How do Gordon and Grace give Romeo and Juliet their heart's desire at long last?
- How does Nick get his hands on a treasure chest full of Spanish 'pieces of eight'?
- Where in Chester is Coincident Alley, and what goes on there?
- What happens when Gordon and Grace take on the combined might of Chester's wickedest wizards and witches, and what remarkable discovery do they make about their best friends Nicholas and Miranda?
- Why is a wizard crime lord trying to kill them all, and what do Nick's father and Miranda's mother have in common?
There is never a dull moment as these four fourteen-year-old teenagers face heart-stopping challenges during three action-packed months. All their superpowers are needed when they take on Octavius Mortlake, the cruel, and criminal Dark Lord of Witchcraft and Wizardry who rules the North West of England with an iron hand...
This story will make you think and often make you smile; and perhaps, in places, it will make you cry.
Once upon a time -a long time ago - I was born in Bootle (Liverpool 20) in the UK. There was a war on. Later, I wanted to follow in the footsteps of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis but instead was plunged into the maelstrom of inner city education. In the 1970s I wrote some stories for children to see if I could, and Penguin published them. I thought I would write something really good when I retired from teaching...
After fourteen years of headship in Hackney I came back up north in 1993 and met my wonderful wife Amy. We looked after my increasingly ill parents full-time until they didn't need us to do it anymore, by which time the first of our two daughters was ready to go off to University and on to the first rung of the housing ladder. We did the sums and I went back to teaching...
In 2008 Amy and I set off for a life by the western shores of the Caribbean. It was only after I survived a murder attempt by three local thugs in November 2010 (skull crushed in two places, seventeen stitches in head wounds) that I realised how easy it is to die without accomplishing a cherished ambition.
So we came back to the UK and I set to work on "Myrddin's Heir" the epic story I will leave behind. It took three years to write the first four books - now in the Kindle Store at 99p each. Self-publishing means self-marketing, so here I am. Book 5 was published in April 2014 for the same price...
This is a story for bright children from 10-110 years of age. It's longer than The L of the R, longer even than HP &... To finish it I need to live another 15 years. I'd like to finish it, because I know how it ends.
