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THE CLEARING of TROUBLED THOUGHTS

When you get caught between the moon and the Bermuda Triangle, Winnie the Pooh says the best you can do is believe in magic and ‘proseedcake’ in all haste. On the third of May in 2024 as I sat in the moonlight under a thinking tree listening to the silence of the stars, I heard the braying of a donkey and followed it to the Hundred-Acre Wood of my childhood dreams. “Well, you took your sweet…

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CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER

The ‘St. Albans’ portrait of Edward de Vere by Marcus Gheeraedts Enter a new ‘Corner’ where Eeyore is king, and Pooh and Shakespeare navigate a forest labyrinth haunted by old ghosts faced with new challenges – a fanciful read with serious historical implications. ‘SHAKESPEARE AT POOH CORNER’ contains dozens of ‘Pooh-isms’ and Lewis Carroll’s glorious ‘nonse’ words originally allowed to run…

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THREE TIMES A STORY

In 1550a boy wonder is born in the English countrysideof Hedingham in Essex who changed the worldbut lost his soul. In 1928after a great war in the Shadowlands, a manliving in the Ashdown Forest of East Sussex, England, created the Hundred-acre Wood. In 1963 twin girls are born across the Atlantic.One of them was born to rule an enchanted forest.The other was born to stop her.

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EEYORE KNOWS

‘Shakespeare at Pooh Corner’ is the tale of an enchanted place where the forests of Silvany, the realm of Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and Christopher Robin’s ‘Hundred-acre Wood form a Bermuda triangle of secrets where trees reason and disbelieving is treason. Who wrote the works of Shakespeare? A changeling princess knows; Pooh and Piglet know; Owl is positively adamant; And…

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SHAKESPEARE AT POOH CORNER

MUCH ADO ABOUT FICTION IS THE ART OF TELLING LIES

CHAPTER ONE SOMETHING MAGIC THIS WAY COMES 1968 “Remember tonightfor it is the beginningof always.”DANTE ALIGHIERITHE INFERNO There was no need to check the corners in our house for demons. Mother’s dark shadow crept through the house without her. She told me trees ate naughty children who didn’t do as they were told and threatened to leave me in Jabbers Walk if I didn’t grow up. When I was…

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THE LAND BEFORE SNOW

IF TIME STANDS STILL ANYWHERE, IT’S AT BEDE. IF GHOSTS HAUNT ANYWHERE, IT’S IN BEDE HALL. But ghosts are nothing compared to the challenges haunting a curmudgeonly building with a desire for eternal life. BEDE HALL WAS ALIVE BUT EVEN IN BEDE, IMMORTALITY WON’T LAST FOREVER! History comes and goes. Empires rise and fall, civilizations flourish and cultures collide. The laws of probability…

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THE POWER OF SNOW

There are three generations of Stratford-Smyths ‘living’ in Bede Hall. THE FOURTH IS THE GHOST OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, WHICH MAKES THEM FOUR GENERATIONS SPANNING FOUR DIMENSIONS. Bede Hall is old. The word ageless barely covers it, and the word timeless is an outright lie. Older than time is closest to the truth. But even then, strictly speaking, the Hall is older than history. The Hall hovers…

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A FORECAST OF SNOW

Prologue for book one of the Bede Series THE DISTANCE FROM BEDE TO LONDON IS 300 MILES NORTH AS THE CROW FLIES AND 30,000 YEARS AS TIME FLIES. Sarah Goodman’s kitchen in the village of Bede radiated with spectral light that emanated from a small square hole in the back door – a rotating cat flap called ‘The Royal Opening of the Way’ that permitted entry for time traveling cats from the temple…

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FRESHLY FALLEN SNOW

PAGE ONE OF ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’ My new name is Snow – a name that suits me even though there are days I wish it didn’t. I died a very long time ago or was it yesterday? …I think maybe both. Apart from a few self-possessed phantoms, I live alone in a house of shadows. My father said they were memories of the past and foreshadows of things that might have been. But that was in the ‘high…

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LISTENING TO SNOW

My Bede series was meant to be a trilogy but Snow, the young ghostly presence who floated silently along Bede Hall’s time portals to reunite her lost family, lost herself along the way. Bede Hall fresh from victory hadn’t noticed Snow slip away to her old sanctuary, the cold spot at the top of the stairs where she barricaded herself behind the Winter Door to sleep herself a reality she could…

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VIOLET SEABORN'S UNFINISHED SOUL

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ANCESTRAL WATERS RUN DEEP Violet Seaborn’s Unfinished Soul is a mythical fantasy about an extraordinary young girl who perishes in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 who must travel back to the prehistoric goddess culture of her ancestors to restore the mystical powers of the water spirit Epona, a horse named after the Celtic goddess protector of horses, ponies, and donkeys. Epona drowned as one…

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A ‘DOGGED STAR’ IS BORN 

‘DOGGED STAR’ – When the teenage Leonardo Da Vinci experiences a spontaneous emotional outburst while painting his first masterpiece, he unwittingly initiates a long-term long-distance love affair that defies physics. An extraordinary romance spanning five-centuries transpires inspired by the dogged nature of canine loyalty, the fine art of unwavering reincarnation, and blind faith written beyond…

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READ BEDE! … IF…

READ BEDE! … IF…

Anubis on Hadrian’s Wall IF the title ‘PERPETUAL CHILD’ resonates to a natural affinity for magical realism within you. It helps to be middle aged to read the Bede Series in the true spirit it was written… namely in the guise of a middle-grade time-slip adventure to please an author (me) refusing to age. I write mystical fiction for adults because I believe that too much maturity can be…

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GOLDILOCKS UNPLUGGED

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NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

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NOW YOU ARE TWELVE! NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

NOW YOU ARE TWELVE! NOW YOU ARE TWELVE!

Tis the season for wintry tales of snow and wishing on Christmas stars. In 1924, A.A. Milne (author of the ‘Winnie the Pooh’ books) wrote ‘When We Were Very Young’ for his four-year-old son, Christopher Robin. In 1927 he wrote ‘Now We Are Six’. Piglet and Pooh discover worrisome heffalump footprints in the snow It’s a little presumptuous and far too ‘on the nose’ to dedicate my ‘Bede Series’…

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JUPITER & THE GHOST OF MONA LISA     

JUPITER & THE GHOST OF MONA LISA