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You can follow the reviews with the poster, and the tour page here – Grandad’s Chair
Publication Day: 19th March 2024
Published by: Blossom Spring Publishing
Who could have believed how much trouble an old chair could cause?
From the moment his late grandfather’s chair is delivered to Miles’ home there seems to be magic at work. His long, friendless, school holidays are usually spent daydreaming and watching television. This year is different.
Chairs, people and books have one thing in common – you should not judge them by their covers!
Hidden under the leather covering of the chair he discovers clues to a world beyond his ordinary life in a North Yorkshire town in 1980. Miles is inexorably drawn into a dangerous world of witches, winged pigs and a mysterious tropical island.
Fearing for his life, whilst being hunted by a ferocious enemy, Miles decides that he should leave a record of his exploits. Thank goodness he did!
Meet Michael Price
After an uneventful upbringing in Scarborough North Yorkshire, I went to study Zoology at the University of Leeds in 1977. Upon completing my own education, I immediately set about inflicting what I had learnt on adolescents and young adults. After 13 years in British schools and colleges I set off overseas with my wife and family. I spent 23 years working in International schools. At this point I decided that as I had managed to inspire at least a handful of young people over the years, I should retire whilst I was a Head!
The four years we lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, provided my most memorable experiences. During that time I realized that much of what I had previously accepted to be truths were often merely cultural conventions. This view was reinforced whilst living in other countries, with the outcome that I like to think I am now much more questioning and open minded than when I was young.
The conflicting benefits for the brain between building a working understanding of the world based on experienced ‘truths’ versus being open to new uncertainties that challenge its conceptual model and have to be either assimilated into a changed model, or simply ignored, continue to fascinate me, and influence my thinking and writing. Young minds are particularly interesting in this respect.
Having now reached my dotage I can shamble around our island home in the Hebrides making a nuisance of myself. I have been daydreaming and communicating with words for over 60 years, so I decided that writing stories could be a good way to keep out of trouble whilst sharing my humour and experiences. When not at home or walking my dogs, I can be found on the pier hauling the ropes to secure or release the ferries serving the island community.
