23 April: JMW Turner

This date in 1775 saw the birth of J.M.W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner, English landscape painter. He is known for his romantic landscapes and seascapes, and for the Turner Prize, which was named after him.

1. We don't know for sure that he was born on April 23, but this was the date Turner himself claimed as his birthday. He was born in Covent Garden, London. His father, William, was a barber and wig maker. He was the eldest child of William and his wife Mary. He had a younger sister called Mary Anne, but she died when she was about five years old.
2. His mother struggled with mental illness, and the death of her daughter made it worse. In 1800, she was admitted to the Bethlem Hospital or Bedlam, an infamous mental asylum.
3. Turner was something of a child prodigy in art. By the time he was thirteen, his father was selling his pictures in the barber shop and boasting that his son was going to be a famous artist. At 14, he was admitted to the Royal Academy art school and had his first painting accepted for exhibition there when he was 15. At 18, he had his own studio in London. He was elected an associate of the Academy at 24, the youngest permitted age.
4. He developed a routine of travelling in the summer with a sketchbook, looking for inspiration for his work and working on his paintings during the winter months. He had sufficient wealthy patrons to fund his travels, including trips abroad. Venice was one of his favourite places, along with Otley in Yorkshire.
5. He produced over 500 paintings, over 2,000 watercolours and over 30,000 drawings. His most famous works include Rain, Steam and Speed, The Fighting Temeraire (voted Britain's favourite painting in a 2005 BBC poll), and Fishermen At Sea.
6. He never married, but had two significant relationships, both with widows. The first was Sarah Danby, the widow of one of his friends. She was 10 years older than him. She had two daughters who are believed to have been fathered by Turner, although he never acknowledged them, leaving the bulk of his estate and his paintings to his housekeeper. His second relationship was with Sophia Caroline Booth, an independent widow 25 years younger than him. He lived with her in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea until he died.
7. He was known for being antisocial, eccentric and secretive. His closest friend was his father, who lived with him and worked as his studio assistant for 30 years. The death of his father in 1829 led to him becoming even more eccentric and suffering from depression. He could hardly bear to part with his paintings and would suffer prolonged states of dejection whenever he sold one. He was a habitual user of snuff (in 1838, Louis Philippe I, King of France gave him a gold snuff box) and sometimes drank several pints of rum in a day.
8. He especially liked painting storms, rough seas and fires. He allegedly rushed to the Houses of Parliament when he heard it was on Fire, so he could paint the burning building. He was known as “the painter of light”, and would do strange things to his paintings to make them look better. He was known to spit on them or smear stale beer, tobacco or snuff on them. He didn't make his paintings to last, necessarily, either. He knew the pigment carmine was prone to fading, but he used it anyway.
9. He died of cholera at the age of 76 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His last words were allegedly “The Sun is God”.
10. He has been played on screen by Leo McKern and Timothy Spall. As well as having the Turner Prize, awarded annually to a visual artist under the age of 50, named for him, from 2020 he will appear on the new design of the £20 note.

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Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

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Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

April 22: Immanuel Kant Quotes

This date in 1724 saw the birth of Immanuel Kant, German philosopher. Here are ten quotes from him:

1. Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
2. Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
3. We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
4. Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes.
5. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
6. Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life.
7. The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
8. Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
9. There are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
10. It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

21 April: Easter Eggs

It's Easter Sunday, and that means Easter eggs! Here are ten facts to enjoy while you tuck in.

1. Eggs connected with spring festivals pre-date Christianity. Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans would give Eggs in the spring as a symbol of new life and fertility.
2. Early Christians adopted the practice because eggs could be seen as a symbol of the Resurrection and the transformation of death into life. They would stain their eggs Red to represent the Blood of Christ. There is a legend which says that Mary Magdalene brought cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and when she saw Him risen, the eggs turned red. A hollow egg could represent an empty tomb.
3. Eggs may also have become associated with Easter because it was forbidden to eat them during Lent. After the pancake feast of Shrove Tuesday to use up all the eggs, the hens wouldn't know it was Lent and would carry on laying. An egg feast at the end of Lent was a tradition in many parts of Europe. Eggs would have to be hard boiled to preserve them until it was okay to eat them again.
4. The first Chocolate Easter eggs were produced in 1873 by Fry's.
5. The ‘Crocodile’ pattern you see on chocolate eggs originated in Germany and was originally designed to cover up any minor imperfections in the chocolate.
6. In the UK, 80 million Easter eggs make up 10% of the country's annual spending on chocolate. Each child receives 8.8 Easter eggs per year which doubles their calorie intake during Easter week.
7. Decoration of Easter eggs dates back to medieval times when eggs would be boiled with Onions to dye them a golden colour. Different dyes and different colours became popular as time went on. Egg designs became quite intricate, especially in Ukraine where they even have a special word for decorating Easter eggs - Pysanka, from the Ukranian word for "to write" or "to inscribe". Beeswax is used to create the traditional designs.
8. Royalty would take the idea of decorated eggs to a new level since money was no object. In 1290, Edward I spent the then princely sum of eighteen pennies for four hundred and fifty eggs to be covered in gold-leaf for Easter gifts. Even more expensive and elaborate were the Easter eggs given by Russian Tsar Alexander III to his wife, Empress Marie. He started a custom in 1885 by ordering an Easter gift from Peter Carl Faberge. The gold and white enamel egg opened to reveal a smaller gold egg, which also opened to display a golden chicken and a jewelled replica of the Imperial Crown. They were so impressed that they ordered one every year, and later, Alexander's son continued the tradition. Faberge Eggs can sell for as much as £9 million.
9. Games involving Easter eggs are popular around the world. The Easter egg hunt is just one of many traditions which also include rolling eggs down a hill, attempting to dance around eggs left on the floor without damaging any, or throwing them. Medieval priests would throw an egg to a choirboy and the choir would pass the egg amongst themselves. Whoever was holding it when the clock struck noon was deemed the winner. "Egg tapping", "egg dumping", or "egg jarping" was a tradition in the north of England where players would each have a boiled egg and would hit another player's egg with it, until there was just one intact egg left.
10. Easter egg is also a term used in media, in particular computer software, to mean a hidden joke or message secreted away in the programme, which can be accessed by undocumented actions. The name came about because users might go looking for them, as in an Easter egg hunt. The first one appeared in 1979 in the Atari video game Adventure. At the time, Atari did not include programmers' names in the game credits, fearing that their best employees night be stolen by competitors. A programmer called Warren Robinett disagreed with the policy and secretly inserted the message "Created by Warren Robinett" which would appear if a player moved their avatar over a "Gray Dot" during a certain part of the game. Eventually, a player ratted on him and told Atari about the message, but Robinett had left the company by then anyway. At first, Atari wanted to re-proramme the game and re-release it, until they realised how much such an exercise would cost. Director of Software Development Steve Wright suggested not only leaving it in, but creating more, describing them as Easter eggs, for consumers to find.

New!

Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

20 April: Lima Bean Respect Day

Today is Lima Bean Respect Day. Here are some facts about Lima beans.

1. What is a lima bean? Depending which part of the world you are from, you may know them as butter beans or chad beans. They are a type of legume.
2. In Spain, they are called garrofón, and are one of the main ingredients of the famous Valencian paella.
3. The Latin name for the plant is phaseolus lunatus.
4. They are among the earliest crops to be cultivated by humans. They were probably growing them in Peru as far back as 6000 BC. They are depicted in the art of the Moche Culture (1–800 CE).
5. By 1301, they'd spread to North America and people were growing them there, too.
6. Lima beans were exported from Peru to the Americas and Europe. In the early days of trade, they would arrive at their destination in boxes marked with their place of origin - "Lima, Peru". This is how they came to be known as lima beans.
7. A word of warning. Raw lima beans contain cyanide as a defence against predators such as the spider mite. Hence they must be boiled for at least 10 minutes before they are safe to eat. Unless they came in a can - canned lima beans have been pre-cooked.
8. A popular dish in the southern United States is succotash, which is made from lima beans and corn.
9. They are a rich source of dietary fibre, protein, B vitamins, Potassium, molybdenum, magnesium, manganese, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and Iron.
10. Eating lima beans helps helps regulate blood sugar levels, lowers cholesterol and is good for digestive disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome.

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Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

19th April: Hot Cross Buns

It's Good Friday, the traditional day for eating hot cross buns, a spiced bread bun with currants and raisins, with a cross on top. Here are some facts about hot cross buns that you might not know.

1. They're said to have originated in 1361, when a monk named Father Thomas Rodcliffe made small spiced cakes with a cross on top to give to the poor people who visited his monastery in St. Albans on Good Friday.
2. The first written reference to them is in The Poor Robin’s Almanac in the early 18th century. "Good Friday come this month, the old woman runs. With one or two a penny hot cross buns." In those days, street sellers began reciting the well known rhyme - ‘Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny two a penny, hot cross buns. If you have no daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny two a penny, hot cross buns.’
3. While hot cross buns seem to be loaded with Christian symbolism - not only the cross, but Bread as in communion and spices, which were used to represent Christ's body in the tomb, buns with crosses on were around long before Christianity was a thing. The ancient Greeks and Romans ate buns marked with a cross. To the Romans, the cross represented the horns of a sacred ox.
4. In Britain in pagan times people would eat buns with a cross on in Spring to honour the goddess Eastore (the word Easter is derived from her name). To them, the cross represented the four phases of the Moon. Surprisingly, in the early days of Christianity hot cross buns were actually viewed as pagan and were banned by the church.
5. While they are traditionally eaten on Good Friday, they're available in supermarkets all year round, and National Hot Cross Buns Day is actually on September 11.
6. That said, Good Friday is still the peak hot cross bun eating day. Marks and Spencer reckon that they sell enough of them during Easter weekend that if you placed them all end to end, they'd reach from Sheffield to Nazareth or stacked on top of each other would be 14 times as high as Mount Everest. For those who prefer actual numbers, that's about 30 million hot cross buns.
7. In Elizabethan times, it was only legal to sell hot cross buns on Good Friday, at Christmas, and at funerals. They were deemed too special to be sold at other times. Anyone caught selling them at other times had their stocks seized and distributed to the poor.
8. There are a number of superstitions attached to hot cross buns. If you share one with another person and say “Half for you and half for me. Between us two shall goodwill be” you will be friends with that person for the entire year. Hanging one in your kitchen will protect your home against fire and ensure any bread you make rises properly. You must, however, hang a new bun every year. Sailors would carry them on board ship to prevent shipwrecks, and some people believed they had supernatural healing properties. Giving a piece to a sick person was said to help them recover. Another old belief is that you should kiss the bun before eating it.
9. The traditional method for making the cross on top of the bun is to use shortcrust Pastry; however, more recent recipes recommend a paste made from flour and water.
10. No doubt there will be the usual outcry in the tabloids that some council or other has banned hot cross buns in case they offend non-Christians, which probably won't even be true. However, non-Christians who don't want to eat them could try a variation called a "not cross bun" which has a smiley face on top instead of a cross, but is otherwise exactly the same.

New!

Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

18 April: Superman

On 18 April 1938 Superman was first published in the first issue of Action Comics. 10 things you might not know about Superman.

1. Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1933, when they were high school students into pulp science-fiction and adventure magazines. Characters such as John Carter of Mars, a character from the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Hugo Danner from Philip Wylie's 1930 novel Gladiator were among their influences.
2. Their initial concept of Superman was very different to the superhero we know today. In their first short story, he was a telepathic villain, bent on world domination, and he was bald. However, the two writers soon decided to reinvent their character as a hero. Even so, Superman was much more violent and aggressive than he is now and showed little concern about the harm his powers might do to people. Countless villains died by his hand until 1940, when a code of conduct for superhero characters was introduced.
3. Superman had fewer powers in the 1930s.“Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound” was the sum total back then. He could leap tall buildings because of the difference in gravity between Earth and Krypton. Superman's ability to fly (millions of times faster than the speed of light) was added later because flying was easier to show in animations and films than jumping. Other powers come from absorbing energy from the sun. His powers have been added to over the years to include X-ray and heat vision, the ability to speed read and a memory which will allow him to gain PhD level knowledge of any subject in seconds, and a “Super Flare”, when all the solar energy in Superman’s body is released at once causing a huge explosion. Superman is powerless for 24 hours when he uses that one. The solar power is also pretty effective against Vampires. In one comic, Dracula bit Superman, and because of the solar energy, immediately exploded.
4. Superman’s birth parents names are Jor-El and Lara-El. He was born on the planet Krypton, just before the planet exploded. His parents sent him in a specially designed spacecraft to Earth. In one version of his story, it is Batman's father, Thomas Wayne, who convinces Jor-El Earth would be a good place to send his son. Superman's birth name is Kal-El, but when he crash lands in Smallville, Kansas, he is adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who name him Clark Joseph Kent. As his powers emerge, his adoptive parents instill in him a sense of truth and justice.
5. Clark Kent's career as a reporter was carefully chosen, because it would give Superman's alter-ego a reason to show up at crime scenes and disasters promptly, as he would be party to any breaking news. He does actually write articles for the paper as well. People often wonder how Superman manages to hide his identity simply by donning a pair of glasses. According to the comics, that isn't all he does. He also alters his body language, behaviour and, as Superman, speaks with a deeper voice. He doesn't wear a mask because it is easier to gain people's trust without one.
6. Making an “S” symbol on your chest is American Sign Language for “Superman.
7. Every superhero has weaknesses. Superman's best known weakness is kryptonite, although he's also vulnerable to magic and can be harmed by magical weapons. There are several different types of kryptonite characterised by different colours. The standard type, which weakens Superman and causes him pain is Green. Red kryptonite has random bizarre effects on him such as turning him into a Dragon, a villain, grow excessive hair and give him amnesia. Black gives him a split personality, silver gets him high, opal drives him mad. Pink kryptonite turns Superman gay. Perhaps the most dangerous is gold krytonite, which would remove Superman's powers for ever. Not all kryptonite is harmful to Superman. White kryptonite only damages plants; Yellow does nothing and Blue only affects Bizzaro Kryptonians. There's even a type of kryptonite which is potentially useful. Magno Kryptonite can help find objects from Krypton. Should superman find himself on a planet with a red sun rather than a yellow one, he will lose his powers. His X Ray vision is obstructed by Lead.
8. Superman stories have influenced the real world. During the second world war, the comics were full of anti-Nazi, pro-American propaganda which the Nazis hated. After the war, when the Nazis had been defeated, Superman turned his attention to the Klu Klux Klan, which was growing in popularity at the time. The 16 episode radio show exposed many of the KKK’s secrets and made a laughing stock out of them - and membership immediately declined. In more recent years, Superman comics were published in Central and Eastern Europe with storylines dealing with land mines. These had the unwanted effect of inspiring kids to stand in mined areas hoping Superman would come and rescue them. There was also an alleged incident when George Reeves appeared in public in costume and a kid pointed a loaded gun at him, because he wanted to see the bullets bounce off Superman's chest for real. Reeves convinced the kid not to shoot, because the bullets bouncing off his chest might hurt other people. However, it later came to light that Reeves made the story up so he wouldn't have to wear the costume in public.
9. Metropolis, the city Superman lives in, was inspired by the film of the same name by Fritz Lang, which depicts a city with amazing technology, but a poor and undernourished under-belly which is constantly struggling and being wronged by those in power. Modern writers have compared Metropolis to real places. Comic writer, Frank Miller, once said, “Metropolis is New York by daytime; Gotham is New York at night.”
10. Nicholas Cage almost played Superman in 1997 in a film called Superman Lives, but the film was cancelled before he got to play the part. Some may say he had a lucky escape as there is an alleged “Superman Curse”: George Reeves committed suicide, Christopher Reeve suffered life-changing injuries in a riding accident, and a baby who played the infant Kal-El, Lee Quigley, grew up to become addicted to glue and died aged 14. You don't even have to play Superman to fall victim to the curse. Richard Pryor, who played an unwitting henchman in Superman III contracted multiple sclerosis and Lane Smith (Perry White on Lois & Clark) had Lou Gehrig’s disease).

New!

Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

17 April: The Peak District

On this date in 1951 The Peak District became Britain's first designated National Park. Here are 10 things you might not know about the Peak District.

1. The name “Peak District” probably brings to mind mountains, but it doesn't actually have any. It has rounded hills, plateaus, valleys, limestone gorges and gritstone escarpments known as the "edges". The name is thought to come from the Pecsaetan, an Anglo-Saxon tribe who once lived the area. The highest point is Kinder Scout, at 636 metres (2086 ft).
2. The area of the national park is 555 sq miles (1,438 sq km) and it reaches into five counties: Derbyshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. It has 1,600 miles of public rights of way (footpaths, bridleways and tracks).
3. The park has 13.25 million visitors every year. The oft repeated “fact” that it is the second-most visited national park in the world after Mount Fuji, however, is not true.
4. Within its boundaries the park has 1,800 farms, 70 quarries, both active and disused (more than there are in all the other UK national parks put together) and 2,900 listed buildings including Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, Peveril Castle (Norman), centuries-old farm-buildings, cottages, Bakewell’s medieval bridge and 34 miles of disused railway tracks.
5. It has the tallest cave shaft in the UK, discovered by local cavers in January 1999. It's located in Castleton, and is 141.5 metres (464 ft) tall. To put it in perspective, that's taller than the London Eye.
6. The southern starting point of the Pennine Way is here. The Pennine Way is Britain’s oldest long-distance national walking trail. It is 268 miles beginning at the Nag’s Head pub in Edale, finishing at the Border Hotel, Kirk Yetholm, Scotland.
7. It's also the home of the Bakewell pudding, a confection with a flaky pastry base and a moist almond and jam filling. Legend has it that it was invented by mistake, by an 18^th century kitchen maid.
8. While surrounded by cities like Manchester, Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham, the park itself is largely rural. 38,000 people live in it, in villages such as Castleton, Eyam, Hathersage (reputed grave-site of Robin Hood’s friend Little John), Tideswell, Ilam, Ashford-in-the-Water, Tissington and Great Hucklow.
9. About 20 million people live within an hour's journey of the park and 50 million within four hours journey.
10. The area has inspired many writers including Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charlotte Bronte. It has been a filming location for adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, films such as Elizabeth, The Princess Bride and The Other Boleyn Girl, and the TV series, Peak Practice.

New!

Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two