Book description
Bansi O'Hara is visiting her granny in Ireland, when very strange
things start to happen. First there is the swan that seems to be
following them from the ferry, then the strange little man who appears
in her bedroom and says he's a brownie called Pogo.
Things get even stranger when Bansi finds out that her birth
fulfilled an ancient prophecy from Tir na n'Og, the land of the
faeries, and that the wicked Lord of the Dark Sidhe wants to spill her
blood on faery soil.
Bansi, Pogo and Tam, a handsome faery who can change into animal
form, cross through the gate that separates the two worlds to try and
make the prophecy come true for the good faery peoples. But the Dark
Lord is waiting for them . . .
JOHN DOUGHERTY lives in Gloucestershire. A supply teacher with
plenty of experience of classroom activities in primary education, he
is also a singer-songwriter with one CD already available - and has
appeared on TV when his living room was designed in a Gothic style by
Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen. In 2004, he also ran the London Marathon to
raise funds for a charity to help children in care.
Zeus on the Loose was shortlisted for the Branford Boase
Award in 2004 and Jack Slater Monster Investigator was
shortlisted for the Ottaker's Children's Book Prize in 2005
