Fantasy

A children’s short story anthology of 14 Fantastic stories that will fire your children’s imaginations and open their eyes to worlds of dragons, mermaids, self exploration, moral guidance and good old fashioned fun.

Check out the amazing cover by Paula Murphy and professional contributions from Heather Maisner and Boris Glikman. Internal illustrations by Jolanta Dziok.

Contributions from Boris Glikman, Heather Maisner, Sara Barnard, Katy Huth Jones, Stirling Davenport, Patricia Crumpler, Nuzhat Anwar, Susan Kite, Peter Ford, John D Slater.

10% of the proceeds of this books will be donated to the WWO (WorldWide Orphans foundation).

Enjoy these sometimes fishy but always entertaining tales!

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Alan Wakeman's delicate new English translation of this wonderful children's classic by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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The seed for Walt Pilcher’s pythonesque On Shallowed Ground might have been born the day his science teacher hurled a six-foot African spear across the classroom demolishing several books and the bookcase in which they had been sitting. Young Walt took a simple lesson from this: You can’t make this stuff up.
That lesson has informed his writing ever since.

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23 railway inspired tales that mine a rich seam of creativity from the heart of the Yorkshire Wolds. From pure fiction to basis in fact; from wonderfully evocative and painstaking detail to distant viewpoints, from the 1850’s through to the present day and on into the future, every tale in this remarkable collection will entertain you as it brings alive the natural beauty of the Yorkshire Wolds. “The range is truly fascinating from supernatural and science-fiction to wartime drama and accounts based on real people and events” - Lord Faulkner of Worcester, President of the Heritage Railway Association

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A really weird thing happens to 11 year old Megan Crewe when she bumps into Jack the old carthorse. 

She’s too busy to worry about it until she realises what a terrible secret she’s uncovered. 

Jack is in danger but no one will believe it except her best friend Amy. Their ideas come thick and fast, but nothing works, and as the menace creeps closer, events snowball. 

There’s a horse in Amy’s mum’s prize greenhouse, a lot of tomato ketchup in places it shouldn’t be, a ton of heavenly chocolate, and the dreadful taste of artificial flowers. 

In all the chaos, can they save Jack? Or has the danger that stalked the old horse turned its eye on them instead?

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A collection of 25 stories of fantasy and science fiction from around the globe, each illustrated by digital artist Alice Taylor. This collection has been compiled from the winners of the Fantastic Books Publishing International Charity Short Story Competition 2012 and features 2 stories from our professional contributors Danuta Reah and Stuart Aken. 10% of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the WCRF (World Cancer Research Fund - Registered Charity Number - 1000739) who do sterling work in the field of global cancer prevention.

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Till They Dropped by Sue Knight is a thriller novelette following Emily, a trapped child looking for a way home. Audio version read by Penelope McDonald. A Red Room production for Fantastic Books Audio. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Learn More

Miranda should have no cares in Sue Knight’s eco-thriller, Waiting for Gordo. She’s with her dependable husband, Jim, on a paradise island with a group of friends. Their daughter is grown up and has flown the nest. They have no ties and no worries. So why the shades of unease? Is it the rustle of unseen creatures in the low scrub, the strangely watchful Bathroom Cockroach … or is it that Jim’s dive buddy Gordo is delayed on an outlying island waiting for a tropical storm to blow over before their boat can put to sea.

Jim’s usual matter-of-factness keeps a lid on Miranda’s unease, but the small anomalies grow while she looks out over a deceptively calm aquamarine sea towards distant roiling clouds ...

... waiting for Gordo.

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AUDIO coming soon! Second book in the Sci-Fi Shadeward series, Exoneration by Drew Wagar, continues the story that unfolded in book 1, Emanation. The adventures of Meru, Zoella, Kiri and the invincible priestesses of Drayden cross paths and swords.

Don’t be lulled by the fantastical landscape into thinking you are reading pure fantasy. The science behind this book has been diligently researched.

10% of the money made from sales of this book goes to the  March Wood Project that works to rehabilitate teenagers in the beautiful setting of the Kent woodlands.

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