Chasing the Bard
Nominated for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novel 2006, and the podiobook was nominated for the Sir Julius Vogel award for fan production in 2009
He is born into the human world with a gift; a gift that brings him to the attention of powers both dark and light from the World of the Fey. Sive, the goddess of battle, hopes that he may be able to change the fate of her people.
The Fey are dying, killed by something beyond the boundaries of worlds, and Sive will do anything to save them. So she enlists the help of her trickster cousin Puck to guard the child, and watch him grow into his gift. But a dark power imprisoned by human and Fey, plots to destroy both worlds, and unmake all that they have created.
Can one boy stop the destruction, even if he is William Shakespeare?
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Philippa Ballantine
Philippa Ballantine is a New Zealandian writer and podcaster, she has also published books using the name Pip Ballantine

