Rex Merchant: 9 books

Winner of the Best Fiction category of the National Self-Publishing Awards, 'The author has hit the jackpot again...knows the chemistry of making a story swing...The characters are enduring and endearing...style slapstick but racey...This story has a dark side eith teeage sirens and lethal...

Set in the Licolnshire fens in 1290AD. When Ivo Longspee, a Norman landowner and kinsman to the Earl of Lincoln, dies of poisoning, Giles Fisher, a young fisherman, is suspected of the crime. Giles is imprisoned in the Spalding Priory gaol awaiting trial at Lincoln castle. Hug Pinchbeck,...

Hereward the Unawake, the Lord of the fenland faeries wakes from a spell after 900 years to find his watery kingdom drained and under the plough. There are few traces of his old wild kingdom of marshes and fens.  Hereward mobilises every renegade faerie to return the land to its former state,...

When Oswald Gotobed, the High Wizard of the RUFS, tries out some weather magic, he manages to brew up a thunderstorm. Lightning strikes an ancient stone wall in the town and releases a Jester, trapped there since the Middle Ages. Peter Piper, the jester, is not what he appears. A plague of...

Chris Doughty runs an antique shop in the Rutland village of Barrowick on the South shore of the Rutland Water reservoir. When the local vicarage is sold and a Psychic College opens there, he hopes it will  attract more business to the sleepy little village. Francis O'Conlan, the new...

Pensioner Albert Williams studied a correspondence course from the Druids of the Mystic Mistletoe Co. Ltd. The results exceed his wildest dreams.  His secret ceremonies attract a mythical Gryphon to the woods beside the Stein Bros. biological research plant. News leaks out of this unique event and...

Oswald is up to his old tricks trying to impress a lady. For a TV programme on Hauted Lincolnhire, he raises the ghost of Jeremiah Hopkins, a Witch Finder from the 17th century, just to impress Caroline McDo, the glamorous TV presenter. Once raised the ghost refuses to depart and makes Oswald's life...

In 1604, early in the reign of King James 1, an attempt was made to drain the 30,000 acres of Deeping Fen in South Lincolnshire. Thomas Lovell, an adventurer with experience of fen drainage on the continent, gambled his personal fortune to undertake the task.  The local Slodgers, fen men who...