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Chapter Ten: London, Now Richard felt cold as the flying carriage started to descend over London. It wasn’t the first time he’d visited London – he’d travelled to the capital with Janet, before they’d figured out how to reopen the gate and return to Mystic Albion – but he hadn’t grasped...

Chapter Nine: Gatehouse, York, Now “This is a very neat solution to the low-magic environment,” Brains said, studying the diagram Norris had drawn out for him. “Given time, we would have duplicated these spells ourselves.” Norris gritted his teeth, feeling a surge of anger that – he was...

Chapter Eight: Gatehouse, York, Now Helen had never been quite sure what to make of the mundane world’s reporters. There was no such profession in Mystic Albion. The population was not large enough to support anything bigger than a handful of broadsheet writers, collecting the news and...

Chapter Seven: Gatehouse, York, Now Janet felt … uneasy … as she stepped out of Gatehouse. It was hard, almost impossible, to put her feelings into words. She had known she was doomed to a life on the estate, unless one of Steve's money-making schemes actually made a great deal of money, and...

Chapter Six: Gatehouse, York, Now "I hope you had a good nap," Steve said, as Helen joined him in the entrance hall. "Are you ready?" Helen nodded, curtly. She had slept, using a spell to cram ten hours of sleep into a single hour, and then eaten a good breakfast before making her way down to...

Chapter Five: London, Now Polly tried to relax as the private jet landed at RAF Northholt. It wasn't easy. It was early morning and her smartphone was already pinging constantly as she – and her subordinates – tried to keep up with the rapidly-changing situation. They'd been lucky that...

Chapter Four: Gatehouse, York, Now Norris was dreaming. He knew himself to be dreaming, even though there was a reality about the nightmare that was impossible to deny. He had gone to a school where his intelligence and genuine talent had finally won the respect and admiration of his peers...

Chapter Three: Gatehouse, York, Now Janet couldn't sleep. Her life felt like a joke, her world a game played by a mad god. She had grown up on Earth – OldeWorld – knowing she would never climb out of poverty, never leave the estate … the chance to jump to a whole other world had been...

Chapter Two: Gatehouse, York, Now Helen could have kissed Richard. They weren't friends, not in any real sense, but they'd been forced to work together by circumstance before Richard and Brains had returned to Mystic Albion and Helen had chosen to stay behind, to hunt down the rogue magicians...

Chapter One: London, England, Now. "Where are you, you little monster?" Alec kept his head low as he fled into the garden, all too aware his stepmother was right behind him. The woman had never liked her stepson, to the point she'd openly suggested Alec's father should send him to boarding...

Prologue II: York, England, Now Polly stared at the laptop, trying to understand what was happening – and what, if anything, had gone wrong. Lord Burghley had told her and the rest of the staff to remain behind, in the manor, and wait to hear from the invasion force. Polly had been glad to do...

Prologue I: England, 1536 Anne Boleyn knelt on the cushion, her hands bound behind her back, and waited. There was nothing else to do. She knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that her fate was sealed. She had made a bargain with an entity and the price, she had been told, was that she would not...

Hi, everyone (Jet lag is a killer, but pushing on anyway.) The Many-Angled World is the third and final book in the Mystic Albion trilogy, following The Stranded and The Land of Always Summer. It probably won't make much sense without reading the first two, but the basic idea is that a handful...

I know this is a necro, but I only just found this thread. A lot depends on just how powerful Germany is, between 1940-60. Are we talking about a Germany that has crushed Russia in 1941 and now lays claim to everywhere from Dunkirk to Kamchatka, or a Germany that made peace with Russia in 1944...

It still strikes me as absurd - does anyone actually buy anything off youtube ads? I don't - they just annoy me <grin>. Chris