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The Mirror Gates

Peril in the Mirror Worlds

Stuart McPherson

KEY SELLING POINTS
A magical fantasy story as two children are pursued through several different parallel worlds.
A series of fictional historical worlds (Victorian, futuristic and Arthurian Britain) similar but also different to
our own.
Ties into the current interest in magic and fantasy in children’s literature.
For ages 9 to 11 years old.

Charley is worried! Her archaeologist parents have been marooned on a sinking island and, when an antique
mirror becomes a gateway to another world, she too faces many dangers. But she is helped by Charles, a boy
version of herself she meets there, with whom she is unknowingly linked to a great source of magic. They must
now flee through further magic mirrors to other worlds, pursued by horrific magical creatures sent by a sinister
wizard who wants to tear this secret from them.

Charley’s magical aunt accompanies them – at least her spirit does in the body of the cat, Selena. They travel
through worlds that are both similar yet unlike their own in different times. They must journey from Charles’
Victorian home, through a future world where magic and science are in harmony, and finally in an ancient Britain
where they meet versions of Merlin and Arthur. Finally, on the island of Lyonesse, they face the wizard himself
within a magical maze in a desperate battle to rescue her parents and return them safely to their own world and
time.

Stuart McPherson has lived in Glasgow for most of his life. His varied career has included libraries,
researching for an archaeological group and IT training. He wrote intermittently for many years until he was
asked to write some short stories for a student SF magazine. This inspired him to write more consistently and
more ambitiously, leading eventually to this novel.

Publication Date: 28th July 2024 £8.99 ISBN: 9781805144137
Thema subject category: YFHB – Children’s / Teenage fiction: Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy
paperback 198 x 129 mm 264 pp Portrait Author location: Glasgow

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