Tale Series Book 1 An Unlikely Hero How does a quiet, shy, twelve-year-old boy deal with the village bully? - Find somewhere quiet, close his eyes and open the door to his imagination. Finn is a sensitive, young boy growing up in a mining village in the 1960s in north Yorkshire. He spends most of his spare time exploring Tyndale Wood, not far from his home, avoiding another local boy, Christian, whose sole intent is to make Finn's life a misery. One day, Finn stumbles across the set of two badgers, Arnold and Amelia who persuade Finn to help them investigate the strange sightings in the Wood...

Fed up with predictable relationships; fed up with the predictability of everyday life, Abbey Harris in a moment of spontaneity (or according to her mother, madness ) turns her back on the leafy suburbs of Cheshire and hops on a Boeing 747 heading for Gaborone, Botswana. Abbey sets to work with a charity planting trees in the town of Kasane. It soon becomes very clear, however, that life will never be predictable again Love, hate and prejudice exist side by side in the small, rural community, where at last, Abbey has to use her wits to survive. The Perils of Skinny Dipping is a heart-warming...