Eric Carroll

Bertrand and Wally Tackle the Clovehitch Virus Crisis

“William Hiccup,” said Bertrand, “you are evidently suffering from THE CLOVEHITCH VIRUS!”

“Well, I’ll be a popped-lipped wrong-hipped wobbity-wiggled-wobbled wonky-legged son-of-a-peg-legged clove-hitching post!”

When Bertrand the beetle and Wally, a woodland wasp with a waspy mind, set off on a journey through the wood of Lower Tinklewigglebottom to Bertrand’s good friend Professor Clapperstein’s Research Institute, their voyage is abound with incidents and meetings of other insect acquaintances.

A notable earwig scientist, inventor and discoverer, Professor Clapperstein has made a discovery from a human landfill site that will take the group on an adventure through time and space… But will the threat of the Clovehitch Virus Crisis follow them to this new world of aliens and medieval knights?

As Bertrand the Beetle himself would say: “A Book as Bouncy, Bountiful and Brilliant as a King-Cut Kindled Candle.”

Eric Carroll left school at 14 and joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant, serving for fifteen years. Since then, he has been a professional chef, a college lecturer in Bermuda, poet and traveller, amateur photographer and muralist, a ranchero in Mexico, bartender, EFL teacher, and a VSO Volunteer in Egypt. Now retired, Eric is presently occupied in editing and redrafting a string of stories he wrote in earlier years.

Bertrand and Wally Go to America

Jumping up of a sudden, Wild Bill let fly:

“Dang it if I ain’t a snap-happy joy-jiggered delight-diddlin’ son-of-a-gold-digger!”

“And we’re off to America,” announced Bertrand cheerfully. “We are going to visit the great United States.”

In Bertrand and Wally Go to America, our intrepid insects go to the USA.

To New York City, where they meet Barnstorm Beetle, a Manhattan mobster, the Hood for robbing – but in the manner of a Robin Hood! And to Tuxedo, Arizona – the Wild West of Budge Cassidy and the Tapdance Kid and the cool cowboy cricket Squint Eatwood.

Featuring fun illustrations by Brian P Ceney, this book is suitable for readers aged twelve and above, but would also suit grown-ups – under close supervision, of course!

Eric Carroll left school at 14 and joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant, serving for fifteen years. Since then, he has been a professional chef, a college lecturer in Bermuda, poet and traveller, amateur photographer and muralist, a ranchero in Mexico, bartender, EFL teacher, and a VSO Volunteer in Egypt. Now retired, Eric is presently occupied in editing and redrafting a string of stories he wrote in earlier years.