Herbie Brennan

Life
b. Banbridge, Co. Down; lives in Co. Carlow; worked as journalist; first non-fiction work, Astral Doorways, published by Thorsons; achieved success with his Grail Quest series of ‘role-play’ adventure gamebooks in 1980s; Faerie Wars (2003), a novel, concerns the life of a boy Henry who is helped in dealing with the demise of his parents marriage - his mother is having an affair with another woman - by a rebel fairy prince called Pyrgus Malvae.

[Note: It seems probable that this author is identical with J. H. (“Herbie”) Brennan - as supra].

Works
  • Emily and the Werewolf (1993).
  • Bad manners day (1996).
  • Dorothy's Ghost (1996).
  • Little House (1996).
  • Aztec Quest (1997).
  • Kookaburra Dreaming (1997).
  • Egyptian Quest (1997).
  • Mario Scumbini and the Big Pig Swipe (1997).
  • Memory (1997).
  • Seriously Weird True Stories (1997).
  • Seriously Weird True Stories: 2 (1998).
  • Eddie the Duck (1998);The Internet (1998).
  • Alien Contact (1998).
  • Martian Genesis: The Extraterrestrial Origins of the Human Race (1998).
  • The Atlantis Enigma (1999).
  • The Little book of Nostradamus: Prophecies for the 21st Century (1999).
  • The Secret History of Ancient Egypt: Electricity, Sonics and the Disappearance of an Advanced Civilisation (2000).
  • Eddie and the Bad Egg (2000).
  • Final Victory (2000).
  • How to Remember Absolutely Everything (2001).
  • Dr Jenner and the Cow Pox (2001).
  • Eddie and the Dirty Dogs (2001).
  • The Death of the Dinosaurs(2001).
  • Leonardo da Vinci: The Greatest Genius Who Ever Lived? (2001).
  • Fairy Nuff: A Tale of Bluebell Wood (2001).
  • Nuff Said and Ross Collins (2002).
  • Frankenstella and the Video Shop Monster (2002).
  • Letters from a Mouse (2002).
  • Death: The Great Mystery of Life (2002).
  • The Spy's Handbook (2003 ).
  • Space Quest: 111 Peculiar Questions about the Universe and Beyond (2003).
  • Faerie Wars (2003).
  • A Story about The Great Plague: Jennet’s Tale (2000).
  • Techno Future (2000).
  • The Thing from Knucker Hole (1996).
  • Why Do Cats Purr? (2001 ).
  • Zartog’s Remote and Neal Layton (2000)).

Criticism
‘Staying True to the Story’, [interview] in Books Ireland (April 2003), p.79.

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