• The Wonder Lands War

The Wonder Lands War

by Peter Darbyshire

October 28, 2025 | ISBN 978-1-998408-29-0 | 300 Pages

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The Book of Cross 4 I would take the whole world apart to find Alice. Cross is back in a new adventure – a desperate hunt to find Alice, who had sacrificed herself in their confrontation with a mad Noah and his apocalyptic ark and vanished into a whirlpool. Aided by the faerie queen Morgana and her court, Cross journeys across the world to mystical islands populated with murderous immortals, into famous libraries with powerful librarians and magical texts until they reach the chaotic and terrifying Wonder Lands themselves, the dangerous inspiration for the original Alice tales. But the angels… Read more

    • Peter Darbyshire on plotting, passion, and a writer's voice (Sheelagh Caygill, On Creative Writing, 26/08/2025)
      "Always remember that your voice matters. [...] We need more writers like you, with your unique viewpoint, especially in these troubling times. Every writer has their own gift to offer the world, no matter how few or how many people read it. The world would be a poorer place without your words in it. The world needs you."

    • “Mythological beasts, Lovecraftian allusions, pirates, and characters from Moby Dick and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea all fuse together to form a vastly entertaining, fantastical, breakneck hodgepodge quest novel that has the good sense never to take itself too seriously.” – Publishers Weekly
    • “[Darbyshire] writes with the unfettered delight of a gluttonous reader trapped in a library in his own mind, drawing promiscuously from myth, folk tale, religious texts and apocrypha, literature, music and philosophy – seemingly anything that catches his attention” – Vancouver Sun

  • Peter Darbyshire is the author of six books and more stories than he can remember. He lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, where he spends his time writing, raising children and playing D&D with other writers. It’s a good life.