Mars Magic and the Sword of the Secret Fire

Is there life on Mars? There sure is … although I don’t mean huge Spiders at the centre of gigantic silvery webs, or little green men running around.   Even the kind of plant-based life that would be visible to NASA rovers and Hubble Telescopes is probably not going to be discovered on this red planet…

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The Dragon Whisperer’s Son

CHAPTER ONE The Innocent I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO tell you when this dragon’s tale was first whispered from mouth to ear. However, its tail was lost long, long ago in a landscape that was submerged under the dunes of the sands of time. We do divine, though, from the embroidery silks threaded…

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Samhain and the star nursery

If you look to the east tonight just after sunset, which is the only time the Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster is visible to the naked human eye, you may be lucky enough to see them rising into the night sky. Each of its seven hot blue stars hovers in a sparkling, nebulous mist…

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The Glastonbury Chronicles

The Glastonbury Chronicles are based on authentic fairy tales and are written with love for adults who are still children at heart.

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The Dragon Whisperer’s Son

I’m delighted to be able to let you know that The Dragon Whisperer’s Son is now published and available here on Amazon in paperback and for Kindles. I’m also keeping the price low – for the next few weeks – of all three books in The Glastonbury Chronicles series so that you can buy them…

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