FANTASY
Giants, Beasts, Reptiles, Serpents, and Tyrants
A Fictititious Fairy Tale
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Fantasy lies at the heart of Fictitious Books fibs – daydreaming, delusions, nightmares, visions, apparitions, hallucinations – extraordinary tales narrated through the lens of fantasy.
Explore the fantasy world of Isobel Vellacott’s Monsters of Narratokia:
Calypso, Spike, Pixie, Luke and Wanda are five children who live in Swiss Cottage London. Spike is always fighting, Pixie likes ice 
cream, Luke believes in everything, Wanda knows that girls are cleverer than boys and Calypso is a daydreamer. What none of them realises, is that Calypso is a Princess from a faraway magical land called Narratokia.
Calypso has always been disappointed with her life in Swiss Cottage. She finds it difficult to concentrate on the boring lessons that she attends at school. Her discovery of the Narratok DreamBook transforms everything. In a dream about the French revolution, she meets a bionic cat called Atomic and her real father, King Benevol of Narratokia.
From that moment on, she is plunged into a rollercoaster adventure divided between epic battles with the terrifying Monsters of Narratokia and difficult conversations with her friends in Swiss Cottage who think that she is going mad.
Travel with Calypso to Narratokia and experience close up the Isle of Quintaine, the Teeming Ocean on the Moon of Aquatico, the Sea of Circularity, the Moon of Troppea, Slitherene Marshes, Stink Hole Caves, the City of Mindloss and the Plains of Dissimulation.
Join Calypso on her journeys to Narratokia as she attempts to rescue King Benevol from imprisonment and restore him to his throne. Witness at first hand her struggles to defeat the fire-breathing Rhinotaur, 
the monstruous Tentaculopod, the awe-inspiring Croculosaurus, the demonic Watchdog, Rottsnarler, and Blackheart himself, Terrox the Terrible, who rules Narratokia with an iron fist from the Temple of the God Cyclon.
Listen to Calypso’s vain attempts in Swiss Cottage to convince Spike, Pixie, Luke and Wanda that Monsters really do exist in Narratokia, and that she has not completely lost her mind.
Get to grips with Tiks, Toks, Taks and Cycles in a strange Narratok world where life is organised around Moky, Toky, Boky, Roky, Soky, Ooky, Poky, Doky, Noky and Woky.
And what is the significance of the weird-looking symbols that keep appearing on the cover of the glowing green DreamBook? They’re like nothing Calypso has ever seen before. Are they a secret code that she needs to decipher? Or are they mere figments of her imagination, just pure fantasy?
Like Calypso, Isoble Vellacott was disappointed when she grew up. She much prefers the enchantment of childhood. Her written contributions to Fictitious Books reflect her desire to escape from the reality of an adult world. In Monsters of Narratokia, Isobel Vellacott invites you to set your imagination free in a Fictitious fairy tale where reality ends, where fantasy begins………
Chapter 1 Chopping off Heads Saturday 21 July
Robespierre looked in disdain at the eleven year old girl and the purple Siamese cat squatting on its hind quarters on the flagstone floor. He could barely contain his anger and impatience. What on earth were this ragamuffin and this strange coloured cat doing in his private chamber? He was extremely tired. The Revolutionary Committee had been meeting throughout the whole day. He’d had to make some difficult decisions about whose head needed to be chopped off and he didn’t appreciate being woken up at two o’clock in the morning.
`Who are you?’ he demanded pointing his index finger directly at the girl, his voice exploding with thunder.
`I’m Calypso,’ the girl replied in fluent French. `I’ve only just arrived in Paris. I live with my aunt Lullaby in Swiss Cottage in London. I know that I don’t look English. That’s because my mother is from Brazil. My father’s English though. I’ve no idea what this is all about.’
`Calypso, Swiss Cottage, Lullaby, Brazil,’ Robespierre repeated. `Very suspicious.’
`And I’m Atomic. I’m with her,’ said the Siamese cat.
`Atomic,’ Robespierre repeated to himself as he stood face to face with a talking cat. Had he lost his mind? Was this feline creature actually speaking to him? And not only speaking to him in French but in that posh accent of the aristocrats whom he despised. This couldn’t be real. Perhaps he was asleep? Could this just be a nightmare?
He needed time to understand what was going on. The revolution was making progress in changing society for the better but talking
cats hadn’t been part of the plan. Perhaps he was starting to lose his grip after so much blood-letting. Or maybe some devil-worshipping lord of the manor had escaped his reign of terror and disguised himself as a cat to escape punishment?
Robespierre turned his attention to the two Republican guards who had escorted the girl and the cat into his private quarters. `Why have you bought them here at this hour?’ he asked in a menacing tone. `I gave orders that I was not to be disturbed. I have important matters to resolve this night.’
`But we found them snooping around outside your front door,’ replied one of the guards nervously. 
`You know how many royalist sympathisers there are who want to assassinate you at the moment. They both looked very suspicious to us.’
`A girl and a cat?’ Robespierre retorted still mystified.
`A girl and a cat who talk to each other in a weird foreign language that we can’t understand,’ replied the guard. `We’ve never heard anything like it – a lot of hissing and squeaking; must be oriental or something. And she’s got some kind of strange book that she keeps tapping with her finger. It’s got pages that light up. We think that she’s spying for the king, or else she’s sold her soul to the Devil. If she were normal, she wouldn’t be with a cat like that. Cats aren’t purple. It’s the work of Satan I tell you. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was a witch.’
The guard brandished the book with illuminating pages as clear evidence that the girl was collaborating with the imprisoned French king Louis 16th……….
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