John William Powell, born in Bristol in 1937, has a PhD in engineering and an honorary DSc from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He was awarded the OBE in 1991 for Services to Technical Education in Ghana. During his time working in Ghana, from 1971 to 1997, his three sons were at boarding school in England. The stories in this book originally accompanied his weekly letters to his sons. In recent years, John Powell has been involved in teaching English to children and secondary school English teachers in Vietnam.
King Freddie the Umpteenth of England and his prime minister, Merlin the Whirlin, are convinced that Patron Saint Cuthbert is no longer up to the job. As fast as Cuthbert’s splendid band of knights in shining armour chase the fire-breathing monsters out of the kingdom, they fly back in again. So w...
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