Cerco and the Little B's

The book is a gentle partly fictional fantasy broadly based on the authors experiences in South Africa.
The main characters are the Pals, Henry, a tortoise (Highly Efficient Naturally Rational Yggdrasil), the Imps (which evolve from Implied statements (take lie out of imply and you get an imp and their adversaries Boney Beet, his Henchums and the Huns (take the truth put of an untruth and you get an uncouth.