This collection of poems is loosely based on famous historical characters. Poems they may be, but not "poetry." This is comedy in verse. What was the real story behind the gunpowder plot (and who was this guy called Fawkes)? What happened after the English Civil War? How did Rasputin meet a sticky end? All these questions and more are answered in this book. So forget those boring history lessons Let's have a bit of fun together but beware. You may accidentally learn some history on the way...

Trapped by an underground rock fall, Eve and Paul stumble upon the bizarre world of the 'Fair-eyes', a subterranean civilization whose society and foibles are curiously reminiscent of our own. The kidnap of a princess catapults the children into a desperate and dangerous rescue mission, but is everything as it seems? Could the pathologically stupid Goblins really have hatched this plot on their own? Are there darker forces at work?

Brimming with word-play, nonsense verse, and a cast of eccentric characters, each with a unique and peculiar logic, this tale is faithful to the style of the originals, picking up the pen where Lewis Carroll put it down.