Daphne Denley Bücher

A beautifully sweet and funny story about the day the Loch Ness Monster mets Queen Liz for tea at the palace, with a funny and surprizing twist. WINNER of The Golden Wizard Book Prize 2023

This collection weaves together gothic stories, poetry, and fairy tales filled with unexpected twists. Readers will encounter a variety of supernatural beings, including ghosts, vampires, zombies, and werewolves. Themes of enchantment and peril are explored through a dangerous mirror, a young girl's joyful discovery of her witchcraft, and a village that vanishes due to a fairy curse. Each tale invites readers into a world where appearances are deceiving and magic lurks in the shadows.

A record of mid-life mayhem, a daughter growing up and a husband's devastating cancer diagnosis all told in poetry. Hope wins out in the end.

Stars and planets, vast skies and new horizons. A distant future with secrets in its past. A house sitter intercepts a message from a lost craft, while a tree holds the key to an alien invasion. A brilliant and far-ranging collection of poetry and short stories about our present and future relationship with space

In any society there is always pressure to conform, to behave like those around you. Sometimes it can be difficult to stand alone, to follow your own path whether that’s by choice or force of circumstance. These stories are all about people who are slightly out of step with the world around them. Such people as: A young woman who thinks she is stupid but develops self-confidence when someone believes in her.A scientist who is convinced that the world is headed for a total flood so begins building an Ark in his back garden.A retired headmistress who refuses to be bullied by other residents in her apartment block.A 90 year old lady who defies developers, ignores a compulsory purchase order and refuses to leave her home.These people, and those in the other stories, may not think of it in these terms but they are all marching to the beat of a different drum.

Trolls and pookas, wild woodlands and fairy meadows. A dollhouse with secrets within its rooms ... Full of the mysterious and the gothic, myths and memoir, this is a captivating and intriguing anthology of short stories and poetry inspired by the magic within a familiar landscape