Magic caused the war. Magic is forbidden. Magic will save us. The Relic Guild is the award nominated first book in The Relic Guild trilogy. It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze where a million humans hosted the Houses of the Aelfir. But when the Thaumaturgists, overlords of human and Aelfir alike, went to war, everything was ruined and the Labyrinth became an abandoned prison. The surviving humans were trapped behind boundary walls a hundred feet high, and all magic was forbidden. And now the war is returning. The Relic Guild are all that stand against the end of the city. But they are old, scattered and weak, and the enemy is growing in strength... Here in THE RELIC GUILD (and other stories) please enjoy a large chunk of The Relic Guild Trilogy (published with kind permission of my publisher Gollancz), complete short stories, the odd poem, one or two blog posts, and samples chapters from my other novels.

(Book 1) Elleanora Carter has been living with her grandfather, Professor Digory, from the tender age of 8 years old. Since arriving at the manor that was now her home, her overwhelming curiosity dug at her, discovering hidden secrets among the manor and her family line, as well as a large chest which she couldn't find the key to as hard as she looked. After 3 years of living with her grandfather and the start of the Second World War, Elleanora receives a telegram from the British Army. Her father is M.I.A, presumed dead by enemy fire. Struck with grief Elleanora retreats into herself, unable to make herself feel anything except sadness and loneliness of losing yet another parent. With the war tipping Elleanora and the peace over the edge, the Pevensies siblings arrive. And at the end, the five will share a secret. One for their eyes only. [DISCLAIMER: I do not own Narnia nor C.S Lewis' characters, except Elleanora [Ella/Nora] Carter and her father]