The Travellers' Tales

The Travellers' Tales is the third book in a series.

All three are based on established and believed historical facts.

The first - The Hidden - describes the adventures and dangers faced by Bran, Maggie and Ted as they tried to uncover the secrets of The Hidden in Ethiopia.

The three mature adventurers, who are pursued by Al-Shabab terrorists and the Ethiopian Secret Police, are successful in their quest and see something of the great treasures protected by the Custodians and Guardian, and which includes the Ark of the Covenant and the right arm of the True Cross of Christ.

The second book - Cappadocia - describes the searches by the trio of adventurers into the secrets hidden in the caves in Cappadocia, Anatolia in Turkey.

They decipher an ancient fresco to find the crypt of St George and the dragon, and encounter the goatherders, the protectors of many hidden secrets.

The trio encounter intrigue, mysteries and questioning, but establish contact between the goatherders and the Yewenidimamachi, a brotherhood that includes the Custodians and Guardian in Ethiopia, with the aim of protecting the hidden secrets in Cappadocia.This, the third book, entitled The Travellers' Tales, commences with the discovery of an ancient journal in the second-hand book capital of the world: Hay-on-Wye.

The journal tells of the travels and findings of numerous people who contributed to the journal and followed its ethos in a journey through time and across continents.

The three friends are united again in an unfolding adventure deciphering the contents of the journal sent out from Ethiopia 1000 years before, by the ancestors of the current Custodians and Guardian.

The journal was intended to capture peoples' views in the countries it travelled through so that cultural, religious and social differences could be better appreciated; and to allow some of the mysteries of the world to be recorded. And, importantly, those who carried the journal were to record and help to protect any precious religious and historic finds that they come across in their travels.

Many questions arose from initial study of the journal and it was agreed that these could only be answered by Bran, Maggie and Ted following the journal's trail from north-east Africa, through south-eastern Asia and across Europe.

It is their adventures and the many secrets revealed by the journal - murder, thievery, historical and religious finds, and the characters with their own stories to tell - that comprise The Travellers' Tales.