Benjamin Dickson – författare

Elizabethan England is a time of superstition and strange goings on. If you have a problem, it's common to go to a witch for help. And Queen Elizabeth I is no different... When Daisy -- a precocious young witch -- learns of the death of the Queen's Royal Witch, she flies to London to audition as her replacement. But Daisy is from a poor family, and they don't let just anyone into the Royal Court. The only way into the palace is to take a job as a cleaner. As Daisy cleans the palace, she draws the attention of Elizabeth's doctor (and arch-heretic) John Dee, who places her into the auditions -- much to the chagrin of her more well-to-do competitors. But Dee knows how dangerous the corridors of power have become, with dark forces manipulating events for their own ends. To him, Daisy represents a wild card -- one that may decide the fate of many. With so many wanting her to fail, Daisy will need all her grit and determination to make it through these auditions -- not to mention a sense of daring and adventure...

Dickson is the critically-acclaimed author of A New Jerusalem (New Internationalist, 2018)

Cursed! Elizabethan England was a time of superstition and strange goings on. If you had a problem, it was common to go to a witch for help. And Queen Elizabeth I is no different. Daisy, Queen Elizabeth's Royal Witch, has protected the monarch against evil for two years, and is now very good at her job. When Daisy goes home to attend the wedding of her childhood friend Jerome, she struggles with the ways her friend and hometown have changed. Unfortunately things quickly go from bad to worse when an incident of dark magic leads to Daisy and her mother being put on trial for malevolent witchcraft. The penalty is death! But who really caused the incident... and why? Daisy's loyal friends - Simon the bodyguard, Edith the maid, Nathaniel the rat and the ghost of Thomas Cromwell - must get to the bottom of these mysteries, before it's too late!

Named one of Rough Trade’s Best Books of 2013According to Gandhi, the Four Stages of Protest are as follows: First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win!In Fight the Power!, comics authors Sean Michael Wilson and Benjamin Dickson team up with illustrators Hunt Emerson, John Spelling, and Adam Pasion to show how this process has been played out again and again throughout history--and has slowly but surely led to hard-won rights for the people along the way. Focusing on the English-speaking nations, Wilson and Dickson chronicle the struggles of the Luddites and Swing Riots in the early 1800s, through the Irish Rebellions that lasted through 1922; from the suffragettes in 1918 to Rosa Parks and the bus boycott of the mid-1950s; from the trial of Nelson Mandela to the Occupy movement that has only just begun. By illuminating the variety of protests--and the valuable connections among them--through an accessible art form, Fight the Power! shows that there is a point to the struggle, fight by fight, win by win.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Rural fantasy meets high-stakes adventure in the original hardcover graphic novel, THE MOUNTAINS BELONG TO US, where it’s one young woman and her trusted dog vs. the world – literally.A fantastical journey through loss and danger – both earthly and unearthly. Somewhere in the high mountains of Europe, Thomasin loses her father while travelling to a convent. A shepherd takes her in and promises to help her finish her journey; but when the shepherd is conscripted to war, Thomasin is left with the shepherd’s most trusted sheep dog, Max, and his herd. Together they must reach the convent and guide the sheep to safety. But the way is perilous, and the wolves on the mountain are hungry… Rural fantasy meets high-stakes adventure, The Mountains Belong to Us is the story of one young girl and a sheepdog, and a desperate journey of survival against the odds. Rural fantasy and adventure for fans of: The Tufa series by Alex Bledsoe (The Hum and the Shiver - Book 1)The Autumnal by Daniel Kraus (writer) and Chris Shehan (artist)Hillbilly (series) by Eric Powell (writer & artist)Revival by Tim Seeley (writer) and Mike Norton (artist)The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden (The Bear and the Nightingale – Book 1)Wildwood Dancing series by Juliet MarillierThe Folklore Cycle (series) by John Hood (Mountain Folk – Book 1)The Spirit Song Saga by Ross Hightower ( Spirit Sight – Book 1)The Greenhollow Duology by Emily Tesh (Silver in the Wood – Book 1)The Green Man series by Juliet E. McKenna (The Green Man’s Heir – Book 1)Witches of Lychford series by Paul CornellMany of Charles de Lint’s books

1941. After discovering Santa Claus'' factory, the Nazis enslave the elves, incapacitate Santa and convert the factory into a factory of war. two of Santa''s helpers escape to London to brief Churchill, who creates a commando unit to take the factory back.