The young tractor driver had spent his entire adult life working on the farm.

But before long he would find himself embroiled in a battle for the Talisman, a powerful artefact hidden for years.

Thinking that Witches, Wizards, Warlocks were all myths and legends, he soon found out he was wrong about those and many other magical creatures.

David Hansell is seventy-four, Married for fifty-three years, with two boys.

He is dyslexic and has Marfan syndrome.