by David BoylePublish: Dec 04, 2020Paranormal RomanceFantasy
Book Overview
How did that cat get so helful - and so human?
The princess left outside one snowy night who feels she can't ever come inside again...
The gipsy boy waiting to hear his fate as the will of his guardian is read to his unpleasant relatives...
The author explains that he believes in fairies, and says a... little bit about why in a final essay. These authentic but contemporary folk tales don’t quite prove it – they go beyond that question to show what a little magic does to us all, good and bad alike. The tales plunge us into a world where princesses are so used to being outside that they feel they simply have to stay there, and where princes find a way to stop losing things – and people – wih disastrous results. There are some new takes on Puss-in-Boots, Rip van Winkle and News from Nowhere too, similar to Angela Carter - and a plea for help from a tourist stuck a century hence who can't get home again. And all from the author of the fairy novel, Leaves the World to Darkness…read more
BIOGRAPHY I live in the South Downs, in Sussex, and write in a small green hut at the end of the garden - mainly about history, politics, economics and the future. I find that history now absorbs me the most, from Richard the Lionheart to Enigma and with a great deal in between. I try to recapture some of the spirit, even the ... magic, of the past - I've also written quite widely about fairies (I find this doesn't sit easily with writing about economics, but I still wrestle with holding the two sides together...).
I've found myself more recently writing about codes and the navy, which is a lifelong fascination, and - most recently - writing about family members as well, in Unheard, Unseen (about early submarines) and my great-great-grandfather is the central figure in Scandal.
But then, where the magic and the economics can potentially come together is in fiction - notably in my Leaves the World to Darkness (fairies) and The Piper (money).read more