A Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery - Paperback

by Heather Murphy (Author), Kate Russell (Author)

Henry Noble carries a heavy load. For the two years since the disappearance of his father he has toiled as the family's chief breadwinner. Protector of his mother and two obnoxious younger brothers he finds himself trapped in the drudgery of a boring job counting the King's gold, all the while dreaming of a life of magic and wizardry. When a glimmer of light appears, he snatches at it only to stumble into treachery and deceit. Henry and his timid friend Peter are forced to embark upon the scariest journey of their lives. Secretly wishing their fearless friend D.C. was with them, their dread is overshadowed only by the sticky ending they know lurks around every corner. An epic fantasy about courage and passion, friendship and ingenuity, a Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery delivers such a no-nonsense description of the mechanics of magic you'll wonder why you weren't taught it at school ...

Author Biography

Kate Russell has been writing and talking about technology, gaming and the Internet since 1995. Best known for weekly appearances on BBC technology programme Click, she is also a regular on the sofa at ITV's Daybreak and other TV and radio stations and writes columns for National Geographic Traveller magazine and Web User magazine. She published her first book 'Working the Cloud'(about the internet, of course), in 2013, and after a successful crowd funding campaign her second book 'Elite: Mostly Harmless' (a sci-fi novel based on the game Elite, which was her childhood inspiration to learn about technology) was published in 2014.