About IT’S A KIND OF MARAGIC
IT’S A KIND OF MARAGIC, Parts 1,2,3 and 4.
A 4 book arc series.
Book 1 is the fairy tale… Books 2,3,4 the rest is pure MARAGIC.
It’s a Kind of Maragic begins as a fairy tale — a gentle, wondrous doorway into a world where magic feels playful, curious, and full of promise. But the fairy tale ends quickly. What follows is not a story about people learning to use magic. It is a story about Maragic itself — its awakening, its vast and unyielding power, its ancient memory, and its living, thinking soul.
At the heart of this force lies a forgotten truth: Nature’s Pollen is the most potent Maragic on Earth — the raw, conscious essence of the planet’s power. It is creation and destruction, healing and harm, beauty and terror. It is not a spell, not a gift, not a system to be mastered. It is the first true magic, older than myth, older than humanity, older than the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe.
Across four books, Bree and those around her are not wielders of Maragic — they are witnesses to its awakening. They are swept into the path of a force that cannot be controlled, only understood, respected, or survived. As Maragic stirs, it reveals a truth humanity once knew instinctively but has long chosen to ignore: that the Earth itself is alive, aware, and capable of reclaiming what has been forgotten.
This is a saga about the return of a living power — a force that remembers everything we have forgotten about balance, consequence, and the fragile place of humanity in a world we mistakenly believe we command. It is about the cost of awakening something ancient, something conscious, something that does not play by fairy tale rules.
And beneath it all lies the deeper, more unsettling truth: Maragic is everything humanity once knew, then chose to ignore — not out of innocence, but because nature placed a flaw within us. A weakness woven into our DNA. A quiet, deliberate limitation designed to stop us from becoming all powerful.
We are a species built with an internal fail safe — the instinct to destroy ourselves long before we ever threaten the forces that shaped the Earth.
It is the truth we all feel in the back of our minds, the truth we spend our lives avoiding, and the truth that may ultimately be our undoing.
A complete fantasy saga that begins in wonder and descends into a mythic struggle for survival, identity, and truth — where the greatest danger is not the magic we fear, but the living force we have forgotten to respect.
This story does have a message. But it is an epic exciting adventure story of Maragic, with humour, friendship, family, heroism, evil witches, battles, and love. Opening the doors of imagination for all ages.
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Author Bio:
I.G. Oliver is a chef lecturer, hospitality educator, and award-winning author-illustrator of the magical fantasy series It’s a Kind of Maragic.
With a career that spans royal kitchens, global classrooms, and mythic storytelling, Oliver blends poetic cadence with cinematic tension. His books—Won The People’s Book Award2018—invite readers into a world where moss speaks, magic awakens, and fairy-tales fracture.
He lives in Derbyshire, where he paints, writes, and teaches.
Ig Oliver was born in rural Northamptonshire along with 3 siblings.
Ig finished his school days in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, whilst living in Elmsthorpe in the parish of Blaby. After involved in a serious motorbike accident, he moved to Ticknall, Derbyshire, where he stayed and continued to live with his parents, attending Wilmorton Catering College, and working in many local restaurants and hotels as a chef.
Ig’s career as a chef took him to many a far-flung destination across the world, working for many extraordinary and famous people. Starting with Brigadier T. Landon – known as the White Sultan on his vast estate in Hampshire. His reputation as a brilliant young chef then took him to work for King Hussain of Jordan in the late 80’s at, one his stately homes in Palace Gardens, London.
But later the wider world called and he set off on a journey of discovery in food.
Geneva, Switzerland for a Swiss Banker and later the American embassy Geneva. Followed by a diamond dealer Manfredo Horowitz (Star of Peace Diamond). Followed by Count Van Bercham Chateau ‘de Crans Switzerland. America, then called – New York, Palm Springs, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Hartford, working for the likes of Asher Edelman, the real Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street portrayed by Michael Douglas. Then cooking for Kirk Douglas later through Lord Hanson and many more celebrities and wealthy individuals. Moving on –
By the 1993 working as Executive chef/manager in Moscow, Russia – British embassy, overseeing the catering of the first state visit by HRH Elizabeth II – In Moscow 94. And being one of the first to receive an award of recommendation in the Kremlin by the Queen and Prince Philip. Having also promoted and encouraged the ambassador to allow staff at the embassy to have relationships with Russian members of the public. Catering and as a resident manager meeting, greeting many heads of states, prime ministers, royals, dignitaries and the famous from around the world, including the likes of Princess Diane.
Returning to England in 1997 to work for the then deputy prime Minister Lord Heseltine nr Banbury for the next ten years.
He continues his work as a chef today and has proved himself to be a world class chef. But now he put’s pen to paper to apply a skill he has kept on the back-burner for most of his career as a chef. Although having done many fine oil paintings and portraits in his spare time, he now uses these skills to draw up his own beautiful illustrations to help tell the stories he has so well conjured up through his remarkable imagination and experience, creating a beautiful and enduring fairy-tale four book series of magic, adventure, heroism, family and love.