A BROADWAY author’s work of ten years has finally been published.

The Secret Shire of Cotswold was released on Ebook making it writer Steve Ponty’s second book to be produced after Magic Mirror Maps.

Steve Williams, whose pen name is Steve Ponty, was born in Pontypridd in Wales, but now lives in Broadway in the Cotswolds.

He has spent the last ten years researching the topography of the Cotswolds and comparing it with the Shire of Middle Earth in Professor J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

He has discovered that in many cases the maps of Middle Earth reflect those of Mother Earth, but in reverse.

The Secret Shire of Cotswold follows the journey of Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship from Hobbiton to Rivendell, Chipping Norton to Great Malvern, as the book discovers.

Along the way the author links numerous places with those in the famous book.

For example, the Rollright Stones are the setting for the Barrow Downs, Meon Hill is the site for Weathertop and Moreton-in-Marsh is the curfew town of Bree.

The three stone trolls, Bert William and Harry are still up there on Bredon Hill.

For more information, visit his website www.steveponty.com.