Alastair Reid

A collection of old and new words, including those to be said in singing moods, words for times of day, and rude names for nitwits. Defines such words as gongoozler, tantony, and oosse.

On the distant magical isle of Fairwater, no one was unhappy or grumbled, or worried. Life was too good to be true until the dreadful thing happened to King Prando, his daughter Tiran, and the stonecutter Garth, when the glassblower Phooph brought down his terrible Glass Curse.

What is a town? If you were to sit up high on a cliff and you listen and watch. You will see that it is not one thing but a mystifying mixture of houses, streets, cats and birds, people and windows and bells and clocks and schools all jumbled together on a little piece of the earth. As you read this story it describes what the daily life of a small town could possibly be from morning until night.