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Outside my window the police are chasing a Triceratops that has strayed onto our street. In the next room Dad is going on about how extra-terrestrials are taking all the best jobs, and my brother is pestering Mum for help training his pet Tasmanian tiger to roll over. There's no way around it. The world isn't what it was when I woke up yestereday - and it's all my fault.' - So begins the tale of 12 and ¿ year old Chelsea McAllister in this sci...

Outside my window the police are chasing a Triceratops that has strayed onto our street. In the next room Dad is going on about how extra-terrestrials are taking all the best jobs, and my brother is pestering Mum for help training his pet Tasmanian tiger to roll over. There's no way around it. The world isn't what it was when I woke up yestereday - and it's all my fault.' - So begins the tale of 12 and ¿ year old Chelsea McAllister in this sci...

Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of fantasy literature within the context of its complex relationship with the Christian tradition. In this book, Worthing looks at early influences on the genre, including European fairy tales and folklore, Northern and classical mythology, and Christian allegory. He also explores the contours of a variety of fantasy worlds from MacDonald's Faerie, Lewis' Narnia and Tolkien's Middle-E...

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Mark Worthing's poetic exploration of the wonders of the English Alphabet.

When eighty-seven year old Floyd Willis walked into the Great Wood that winter, he did not know what he would find.They said he had dementia, and that he could no longer live on his own. But about one thing his memory was quite clear. He was certain about the woman he met in the Great Wood when he became lost in it when he was a small child.What Floyd found, for the second time in his life, was a passage into Faerie, and into the realm of the ...

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When eighty-seven year old Floyd Willis walked into the Great Wood that winter, he did not know what he would find.They said he had dementia, and that he could no longer live on his own. But about one thing his memory was quite clear. He was certain about the woman he met in the Great Wood when he became lost in it when he was a small child.What Floyd found, for the second time in his life, was a passage into Faerie, and into the realm of the ...

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Judas Iscariot is the most infamous and most perplexing character in religious history.He accepts the offer to follow Jesus, hoping he might be the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate his people from Roman rule. But in the end, his actions seal both their fates. What led Judas to betray his friend and teacher, then fall into complete despair?If Judas' father was Simon the Pharisee of Bethany, then Judas was likely the cousin of Martha, Mary...

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On 31 October 1517 an obscure German monk named Martin Luther posted 95 theses protesting the selling of indulgences. This single act brought him into inevitable conflict with both pope and emperor. The dispute that followed changed not only Luther's life, but also the religious and political face of Europe. This book offers the modern reader a concise and accessible account of Luther's remarkable life. It explores his passionate and fiery cha...

Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of fantasy literature within the context of its complex relationship with the Christian tradition. In this book, Worthing looks at early influences on the genre, including European fairy tales and folklore, Northern and classical mythology, and Christian allegory. He also explores the contours of a variety of fantasy worlds from MacDonald's Faerie, Lewis' Narnia and Tolkien's Middle-E...

Mark Worthing is an author, and pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide, Australia. He is former head of the Faculty of Humanities and Creative Writing at Tabor Adelaide. His most recent works include Graeme Clark. The Man Who Invented the Bionic Ear (Allen&Unwin, , 2015), and Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God: A History of Fantasy Literature and the Christian Tradition (Stone Table Books, 2016).

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