The Egyptian Princess

About the Book

Peter Phillips, the time-traveller from Saving the Dinosaurs, now 13, is sent back 5,000 years to Ancient Egypt at the time of the Fourth Dynasty. There he finds a world where the wheel has not yet been invented, where only the prayers of the Pharaoh guarantee that the Nile will provide sufficient water for the crops, and where the Sun God, has to travel by boat through the Underworld each night in order to rise in the morning. Shortly after his arrival he is befriended by the Pharaoh’s daughter Mer-tio-tess, who believes he is a Spirit sent to help her. While increasingly attracted towards the Princess he finds himself drawn into a web of power struggles and rivalry. And things get worse when Peter, by accident, brings her back to present-day London, a cold place filled with sad-looking people which, she believes, must be the Underworld.

About the Author

Jane Waller was brought up in Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire, before moving to London to do a BA in sculpture and an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art. She lived with her writer husband Michael Vaughan-Rees in Waterloo near the River Thames where she started a successful campaign to “Save the Oxo Tower”. Nowadays they live in a cottage in the Chilterns. Her first children’s novel ‘Below the Green Pond’ (Abelard, 1982) was voted among the ‘Pick of the Year’ by the Federation of Children’s Book Clubs. This was followed by ‘Saving the Dinosaurs’ (Pan Macmillan, 1994) and ‘Sludge-Gulpers’ (Macmillan, 1997). All three have been republished as books by Glis-Glis Publishing (with ‘Sludge-Gulpers’ now called ‘Under Buckingham Palace’). ‘Me Jane’ and‘Weather or Not’ and ‘The Egyptian Princess’ are now published by AuthorHouse in 2020. Jane has written 19 books on subjects as wide-ranging as ceramics, fashion and social history. For details of her work go to www.janewaller.co.uk. Designed by Michael Spark Cover illustrations by Michael Spark (cover based on an illustration by Katherine Ayling)