When young Princess Laura secretly rescues a baby dragon from her father's hunt the dragon predicts that one day alas she will be the cause of its death. What can she do to ensure that doesn't happen?

A modern fairytale for today's princesses.

There aren't no such things as tree trolls! - said Jamie (7) when his uncle (that's me) said it was tree trolls who'd been stealing food from their backpacks whenever they went for picnics in the ancient woodland surrounding their cold house in Underhill Lane, perched part way up the North slope of the South Downs and a mere foggy walk betwixt Ditchling Beacon and the Jack and Jill windmills in Sussex.

In this tale you will learn what's really beneath the hill in Underhill Lane, some Saxon history concerning a long forgotten battle on Brighton beach, a myth of hidden gold and some real magic too.

Authors beware. Fear is the new quantum entanglement.

A much afeared Portsmouth pirate ship, frozen in an arctic storm 300 years ago, has melted free from the iceberg which entrapped it and is now running amok.

No one believes in goblins any more, not even in the pretty little village of Privett in Jane Austen country (in Hampshire). But tonight goblins have kidnapped young Alex from his bunk bed. It's dark. The trail's getting cold. How do his family track the goblins and get him back?

Great deeds done for love of family do not list in scrolls of wars.

Yet how best stop the tides of war return and live at ease together?

Memories fade. Can be remade. Victors write true histories whose meanings time wipes slippery.

For those who can read them - words of Olden cast new warnings.

The goblins are coming, 1, 2, 3. Hide in the cellar. Hide in the tree.

A novel of books past and future - by Zsolt Kerekes - coming in 2025