Welcome to the Official Website
of Tony Harbourne...
I was born in Wandsworth, London, in 1947 and moved to Kent at the age of seven. The countryside flourished with wildlife of every description in those days, including a vast variety of insects, and was an interest not to be missed.
I started work at the age of sixteen as an apprentice draughtsman in the heating and ventilating industry and left home five years later to share a flat in Highgate with my school friend Ian Tyas. It was during these idyllic flat days that we both met our prospective wives.
Sunday afternoons in Highgate, during 1968, were spent at Parliament Hill, listening to the brass band, flying kites and racing small, hand-carved wooden sailing boats across the boating pond. Thoughts of the boats being sailed by miniature crews led to the creation of Bozadir and the Green Empire, though the transfer of these thoughts to a proper story took a good number of years.
I married in 1970 and three years after the birth of our daughter we moved to a house in south-east London and have lived there ever since.
Books
It's tough to be tiny -
a desperate quest in the big world makes it even tougher.
Weeks before Bozadir of Dwale is due to marry his beloved Egrelda she is kidnapped by the evil Wasp of Norg, who wants to make her his own Queen. Bozadir dashes off on a reckless quest to rescue her, helped only by a handful of trusty warriors, a talking sword and two uninvited guests. more details...
Go on a desperate adventure and
discover the world at your feet.
The precious dandelion forests of Morch-Dewn are its lifeblood, but they are about to be destroyed by swarms of parasitic flies. Only Peapod Greenears of Dwale and his magical necklace can save them but this desperate mission is beset with one delay after another and as time runs out his efforts seem doomed to failure. more details...