When young Princess Laura secretly rescues a baby dragon from the royal hunt the dragon predicts that - alas one day in the future she will be the cause of his death.

Jamie lives in a freezing cold house nestled in the ancient woods of the South Downs, surrounded by mystery and magic. When strange things start happening during family picnics—food mysteriously vanishing from backpacks—Jamie initially dismisses his uncle's claims about tree trolls. But something magical lurks beneath the hill in Underhill Lane, waiting to be discovered.

He? - a wannabe writer disillusioned with another year yet to trudge to the approved exit of one of Brighton's illustrious factories of literary education.

In this swash-buckling, comedy saga, a legendary Portsmouth pirate ship, frozen in an iceberg by an arctic storm, thaws out due to global warming and sets sail once more, unaware how much the world has changed since the 1700s.

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.