The following webpage features Oliver's recent book, Eyes of Fire, plus his recommendations for the five best books in the category of 'fantasy fiction that makes the reader think more deeply about real-life issues'. Shepherd is an interesting website for promoting new writers across a wide spectrum of genres. Click on the link below to read more:
shepherd.com/best-books/to-think-more-deeply-about-real-life-issues
THE OTHER CAT
In The Other Cat, winner of the 2018 Segora International One-act Play Competition, staged in 2019, and inspired by Erwin Schrödinger's famous feline, Poppy encounters a body in the street. Is it her body? A detective inspector, a philosophy professor and a Catholic priest, in their own ways, help her to face reality... but is any of it real? This, and nine other plays, two long listed for the British Theatre Challenge, some farcical, others dark, take the reader on a metaphysical journey of human experience.
MOON RABBIT
Scottish Borders schoolboy, Stevie Scott, befriends Maisie Wu, a new girl in his class, who comes from China, after she gets teased. He saves her from drowning in the River Tweed, but they emerge in mythological China where, as White Tiger and Hua Mei, or Pretty Flower, they encounter talking animals and hungry ghosts must undertake a dangerous mission to retrieve the Blue Dragon's magical red pearl and golden staff, stolen by Monkey King, if they are to return to Peebles in Scotland.
The artist, Alma Dowle, was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Prize for her illustrations.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Rabbit-Oliver-EADE-ebook/dp/B09TJBCWPQ
MONKEY KING'S REVENGE
Stevie and Maisie who, in 'Moon Rabbit', helped the Jade Emperor retrieve the Blue Dragon's magical red pearl and golden staff after these were stolen by the Monkey King, return to ancient China after Maisie gets kidnapped out of revenge by the monkey. Stevie and his high school friends must embark on a terrifying journey to rescue her. And how will they undo the curse of the Jade Snake? 'Monkey King's Revenge’ continues the yin yang tale of cross-cultural friendship and of conflict in a fantasy that is both dark and humorous, incorporating many characters and stories from Chinese mythology.
Illustrated by Alma Dowle who was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Prize for her Moon Rabbit illustrations.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monkey-Kings-Revenge-Sequel-Rabbit-ebook/dp/B09VH522H9
EYES OF FIRE
A 3-part novel blending Native American and European American beliefs in a dimension-spanning story of love and perseverance
Texan teen, Adam, cannot believe his luck when his gorgeous, singer-songwriter Mexican classmate, María, dumps her boyfriend for him. After she gives him an Aztec gold bracelet bearing an image of the mysterious Golden Jaguar of the Sun, their lives change forever. In a journey spanning New York, Mexico and ancient North America, Adam and his remarkable sister, Chloe, must learn who Maria really is if the world is to be saved, but can Adam defeat his greatest enemy, himself? A three-part tale of love, family values and the blending of White Man’s and Native American beliefs in a world threatened by evil forces.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eyes-Fire-Oliver-Eade-ebook/dp/B0B87ZTHWZ
NO MORE BAMBOO
A charming tale aimed at young readers aged 5 and upwards
Ping Ping the young panda is fed up with eating bamboo, and goes off into the forest to look for more interesting food. He soon learns that, for pandas, bamboo is not so bad after all.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Bamboo-Oliver-Eade-ebook/dp/B0BK9CGBX6
THE FIRE HILLS
In AD 180, the hated Commodus accedes the Imperial throne in Rome after the death of his philosopher father, Marcus Aurelius. The son’s evil influence reaches the far reaches of the Roman Empire, threatening peaceful co-existence with Celtic settlements around the fort of Trimontium. But for a Celtic deer goddess of the West, Flidais, and a brother and sister from twenty first century Melrose in the Scottish Borders, the history of Europe might have been so very different.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fire-Hills-Oliver-EADE/dp/1912513544
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Just as Larry’s blossoming love for a girl called Skye seems threatened, the boy falls victim to COVID-19 and ends up on a ventilator. Looking down at his body in an Edinburgh ITU, he recalls past lives over seven thousand years, each highlighting a landmark in the history of Medicine. How can this possibly change the future for Skye and for her mother? From a doctor and award-winning novelist and playwright, the story of Medicine is a blend of fiction and fact, illustrated by the writer’s US granddaughter during the pandemic lockdown.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blink-Eye-Oliver-Eade/dp/1912513560