Charles Ashton is the author of The Dragon Fire Trilogy – Jet Smoke and
Dragon Fire (shortlisted for both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award
and the W. H. Smith Mind Boggling Books Award), Into the Spiral and The
Shining Bridge – as well as the novel Billy's Drift, and, for younger
readers, The Giant's Boot (shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize),The Boy Who Was a Bear and The Snow Door.
