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When a teenage boy comes through the portal a chain of events unfold that will hurl Patsy into times and places far stranger than anything she has previously encountered. And this time, she'll be forced to face them without the support of her mother and grandmother.To make matters worse, the Book of Wisdom will fall into the hands of the Nasqa - the mind thieves.Does Patsy have the maturity and strength of character to face on her own a series of events that will threaten the very fabric of existence?Find out in Graham Davidson's latest installment of The Witches of the Cross-worlds.

Mid-19th Century, Australia, Blue Mountains.Ten-year-old Patsy rescues what she believes to be a fairy from a spider web, triggering a sequence of events that challenges everything she's ever believed about herself and the world around her.A perilous journey into the realm of an evil spider queen brings three generations of witches together. On their own, their power can be contained. Combined, they're more powerful than any of them could have imagined.In the ensuing years, Patsy will find herself travelling through myriad crossworlds-universes that coexist with our own-and battle against creatures that defy existence, including giant catapillars excreting acidic venom and god-like beings whose motives are never what they seem. She'll be forced to mature into a role she never wished for, and which her mother had tried for years to protect her from, as the inevitability of her destiny unfolds.

In Australia's Blue Mountains, during the mid-nineteenth century, ten-year-old Patsy rescues what she believes to be a fairy from a spider-web, triggering a sequence of events that challenge everything she's believed about herself and the world around her.A perilous journey into the realm of an evil spider queen brings three generations of witches together. Combined, their power is greater than any of them could have imagined. But is it enough to defeat the ancient spider queen, Sellemae?In this first book of the Witches of the Crossworlds series, Graham Davidson takes us on a wild ride through two worlds filled with magic and the struggles of a young girl coming to grips with her destiny.

After her encounter with Sellemae, Patsy was forced to accept that she is descended from an ancient line of druid witches. Now, a year later, a mysterious young woman with a garland of dancing daisies emerges from the portal.As events unfold, Patsy is torn over whether the visitor's intentions are innocent or malicious. While her friend, Bandah, is trapped in the void between worlds she'll be forced to seek advice from the most unlikely ally, a wood-elf by the name of Krinkle-myst.Graham Davidson's second book in the Witches of the Crossworlds series takes the reader on a dark and magical journey as Patsy struggles to find a balance between friendship and duty.

When a teenage boy comes through the portal a chain of events unfold that will hurl Patsy into times and places far stranger than anything she has previously encountered. And this time, she'll be forced to face them without the support of her mother and grandmother.To make matters worse, the Book of Wisdom will fall into the hands of the Nasqa - the mind thieves.Does Patsy have the maturity and strength of character to face on her own a series of events that will threaten the very fabric of existence?Find out in Graham Davidson's latest installment of The Witches of the Cross-worlds

After her encounter with Sellemae, Patsy was forced to accept that she is descended from an ancient line of druid witches. Now, a year later, a mysterious young woman with a garland of dancing daisies emerges from the portal. As events unfold, Patsy is torn over whether the visitor's intentions are innocent or malicious. While her friend, Bandah, is trapped in the void between worlds she'll be forced to seek advice from the most unlikely ally, a wood-elf by the name of Krinkle-myst. Graham Davidson's second book in the Witches of the Cross-worlds series takes the reader on a dark and magical journey as Patsy struggles to find a balance between friendship and duty.

From its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning - the 'immortality' of the subtitle unsubstantiated, and the 'recollections' insubstantial. Yet Wordsworth's idea of immortality has clear precedents in the seventeenth century, and recollections of childhood are Traherne's starting point for the recovery of a lost vision comparable to Wordsworth's. Via the power of the imagination, or reason, they believed they could experience a renewed vision that both termed variously Paradise, or infinity, or immortality. Graham Davidson traces the origins of Wordsworth's poetic impetus to his resistance to the Cartesian division between mind and nature, first adumbrated by the Cambridge Platonists. If reunited, Paradise was regained, but this personal trajectory was tempered by a deep sympathy for the woes of mortal life. Davidson explores the consequent dialogue through some of Wordsworth's best-known poems, at the heart of which is the Ode. In the last section, he demonstrates how Wordsworth's publishing history led the Victorians and modernists to misinterpret his work; if one considers Eliot's Four Quartets as odes, facing several of the same problems as did Wordsworth, there is some irony in Eliot's dismissal of the Immortality Ode as 'verbiage'.

From its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning - the 'immortality' of the subtitle unsubstantiated, and the 'recollections' insubstantial. Yet Wordsworth's idea of immortality has clear precedents in the seventeenth century, and recollections of childhood are Traherne's starting point for the recovery of a lost vision comparable to Wordsworth's. Via the power of the imagination, or reason, they believed they could experience a renewed vision that both termed variously Paradise, or infinity, or immortality. Graham Davidson traces the origins of Wordsworth's poetic impetus to his resistance to the Cartesian division between mind and nature, first adumbrated by the Cambridge Platonists. If reunited, Paradise was regained, but this personal trajectory was tempered by a deep sympathy for the woes of mortal life. Davidson explores the consequent dialogue through some of Wordsworth's best-known poems, at the heart of which is the Ode. In the last section, he demonstrates how Wordsworth's publishing history led the Victorians and modernists to misinterpret his work; if one considers Eliot's Four Quartets as odes, facing several of the same problems as did Wordsworth, there is some irony in Eliot's dismissal of the Immortality Ode as 'verbiage'.

Keira and Jake are woken one night by a tap at the window. While Keira assumes it to be a burglar, to her great surprise, it turns out to be Chitch-a-ka-mow-wah, last of a race of legendary winged canines. The canine and his companion (a miniature fox terrier who flies with the assistance of 'poot-power') enlist the children's help in their quest to save their world and our own from the evil shadow people. In this imaginative adventure story, Graham Davidson takes us into a world of mystery and imagination where all hope for the future rests with the two siblings and their canine companions.

Patsy, a ten-year-old girl in the mid-nineteenth century, rescues what she believes to be a fairy from a spider-web, triggering a sequence of events that challenge everything she's believed about herself and the world around her. A perilous journey into the realm of an evil spider queen brings three generations of witches together. Combined, their power is greater than any of them could have imagined. But is it enough to defeat the ancient spider queen, Sellemae? In this first book of the Witches of the Cross-worlds series, Graham Davidson takes us on a wild ride through two worlds filled with magic and the struggles of a young girl coming to grips with her destiny.