Book 5: When the Cat's Away...

by Robin Chambers

Overview

Book 5 chronicles important events during August 2011. The chaotic anarchy of the Real Irish Fairy Defence League at the Loughcrew Cairns is contrasted with the ordered proceeding of the Sinn Fein Sidhe atop the Hill of Tara. Carman the Goddess of the Damned puts in a brief appearance with her sons Dub Dian and Dother. She appears to have learned a thing or two from Margaret Thatcher (or was it the other way round?). The Capo dei Capi in London takes a direct interest in the growing threat presented to his world by Myrddin’s Heir and his magically gifted friends. Meanwhile, resistance to the tyranny put in place by the evil Octavius Mortlake becomes more organized with the launch of WARD (Wandholders’ Alliance for the Return of Democracy). Gordon finds out what can happen if you stand idly by while evil flourishes and decides that he and he and the others must go to war. One by one they take on the enemies... Some terrible bullies get their just desserts; but then the Eight Team face annihilation at the merciless hands of Dub - one of the three sons of Carman, evil Goddess of the Damned... At the end of the book, on their first day in year 8, one of Zoë’s prophecies is fulfilled.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151853927
Publisher:	Robin Chambers
Publication date:	04/04/2015
Series:	Myrddin's Heir
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	881 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

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.