Yatterings

Earthfasts is William Mayne’s most famous book and deals with Arthurian mythology.
Keith and David are crossing the Dales when they hear drumming and are surprised when a drummer, Nellie Jack John,  appears from underneath the land. Unaware of the date, he is convinced that he is still in the seventeenth century. They take him around [...]

William Mayne’s The Battlefield, published in 1967, is an odd fantastic novel which is worth a read for curiosity.
The Battlefield in question is an area of land which generates its own myths about who fought there and when,  ranging from an ancient battle to a civil war to the Devil. Its centre piece is the [...]