This book is a sequel to Barrie's "Peter Pan". It tells how Peter is turned into an old man by an evil spell and it devolves on his younger brother Horace, an eccentric little boy, to save him. In the course of this Horace discovers a nasty surprise about his parents. Care has been taken with the sense of period (e,g. houses have coal fires in bedrooms). The location is partly in Kensington Gardens and partly in Neverland.

The tale of an amazing discovery which sets Gavin, his friend Caroline and his enterprising younger brother Thomas on an astonishing quest to find the Wand of Merlin, so it cannot be used to open the interdimensional portal to release the horrible Demogorgon, who will wreak havoc on the world. This tale includes a ferocious animal which roams the countryside by night, an uncouth orphanage director, an imperilled vicar’s wife, a secret mini-kingdom in the New Forest, a band of menacing goblins, an army of ...