A warm and funny collection of anecdotal stories detailing the ups and downs of life as seen through the whimsical eyes of 'Old Lucas'. Best read perhaps, beside a late-summer riverside, with a cucumber sandwich and a glass of wine, sheltered from life's incongruities beneath a straw boater.

Moms everywhere are expected to play taxi-driver to their children right? But what happens when the child is 48 million miles away on an alien planet and Mom has never been further than her own front door? Fortunately, this Martian Mom has a flying saucer and a robot named Mandy to help her, and together they voyage across the oceans of space to wash up on the shores of Loch Dribble in the Scottish Highlands up to their ankles in Myth, Legend, Fairy-tales . . . and wild Haggis. Mrs. Mc Martian Goes on Holiday, an exciting, warm, and very funny tale of high adventure that brings humour,...