Wings ePress Author - A. C. Warrilow

General Fiction

Fantasy Adventure

General Fiction

Fantasy Adventure

Andrew was born on the 24^th March 1975 in Solihull, Birmingham, England, and after emigrating to Australia in 1988 he is now living in Cleveland, in the Redland Shire, a bayside community south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. He was 32 at the time his first book was published.

Andrew has a dog called Eddie who insists on gnawing himself whenever there is a quiet moment in the house, the gnawing is usually undergone with such intensity that Eddie makes himself gag, this is a long drawn out process of dry retching and straining eyes, Eddie’s other hobbies include scratching for hours at the back door until someone lets him in, watching people on the toilet and dragging his bum across the carpet…

Andrew also owns Newman, a tabby cat, and is just like his namesake in the book (minus the talking). Bertie, another family cat, is also like his character but has since been relocated to Andrew’s ‘in-laws’ due to a long standing feud with Eddie over a Teddy Bear throwing incident.

The Familiar’s Tale is a hearty and humorous piece of fantasy that will tickle most people’s reading funny bone. But wait. What is a familiar? Without giving too much away, a familiar is an animal put into service to guard and care for a particular human being. Familiars can also talk. Some of the familiars in Andrew’s first book are rude, cheeky and violent, as well as being obviously lovable. This idea is one that makes The Familiar’s Tale in many ways, but there is a lot more to the narrative than this idea alone. Concepts of human hubris, tabula rasa and various mythologies surface in unexpected ways in this book which will delight readers.

I am more than excited for Andrew about his being published. He certainly deserves it. And so do his potential readers. --Anna Kassulke, The Word Story

When I began reading Andrew Warrilow’s mystical… THE FAMILIAR’S TALE, I thought surely it was a children’s book, which is every bit as fancifully psychedelic as Alice In Wonderland. That is, until I got to the bar scene where the talking Geckos are battling the Cane Toads in a war of good and evil in the island’s underworld. Then, I wondered if this writer were old enough to have been in on the Height Ashberry era in San Francisco. If you like your stories just a bit off the wall, and warping reality, you’re going to love this book. It is definitely different. --JoEllen Conger, Conger’s Reviews

THE FAMILIAR’S TALE is a fantasy to the extreme, where anything you might imagine happens. The invisible magical Invisus Island is the place where the amnesiac hero, Sam, grapples with ghost voices, talking animals, and crazy goings on as he struggles to remember just who he is. The Pharos Lighthouse keeper, Mayor Eric de Vries, and his 17-year-old daughter, Jessica, along with their various pets, help Sam to untangle his missing memories. They involve him in an ever unfolding battle between the Malcontenders and the Indice. The important thing he can’t remember is his heritage to the opposing mystical powers which are the foundation for all the island’s struggles between good and evil. But bit by bit he discovers he really is an important piece of the puzzle.