Alan McCluskey lives amid the vineyards in a small Swiss village between three lakes and a range of mountains. Nearby, several thousands of years earlier, lakeside villages housed a thriving Celtic community. The ever-present heart-beat of that world continues to fuel his long-standing fascination for magic and fantasy.Alan McCluskey’s work, whether as a teacher or a video artist or a company director or a scientist, was always marked by a need to challenge the self-evident. He has brought that questioning perspective to novel writing alongside a passion for the way gifted young people grow and develop as they are confronted by seemingly insurmountable obstacles.Secret Paths has published three YA novels in Alan McCluskey's The Storyteller's Quest series: The Reaches, The Keeper's Daughter and The Starless Square. Alan McCluskey has also published Boy & Girl and its sequel In Search of Lost Girls.Alan McCluskey set up the Text Agency to help people get the best out of their English texts. http://textagency.org