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BOOKING THE AUTHOR;

Hi, My name is Graham Winkle and I'm the author of The Loch of Mey Monster books. Inbetween writing, working our croft, and looking after our own children,I'm happy to visit schools,librarys,or other functions or parties. Just email; graham@thelochofmeymonster.co.uk

Whether you would like me to read my stories,discuss wrting or sing with the children I am happy too help. My presentations are interactive, fun and I hope original. See schools section for more details

HOW IT ALL BEGAN....

Well it all began one cloudy day in September I met an old man who said he lived near the Loch Of Mey and was 500 years old! Of course I didn't believe him but then he began to tell me about a monster that lived here...yes here in Caithness! This is what he said to me and I've used it as a prologue to the first book.

Prologue

" Somewhere in the mist and peat bogs of the lowlands beyond the Highlands lurks a myth, a mystery, a legend.

A story of an ancient animal prehistoric some claim.

A creature that flies alone having lost its mate in the dim distant passage of time

An animal immortalised by the mysterious preserving qualities of the peat bogs themselves.

As quiet as the slow rise of water in winter as invisible as a grey cloud hanging over a translucent loch, yet as vast as a swarming flock of geese in Autumn.

It flies the path it's always flown some say it's still searching for its lost mate.

Undercover of migrating geese it sweeps in unnoticed and unheard.Yet the familiar smells. the sounds. the large fluffy clouds,

can they all be accounted for?"

Before I had the chance to question the old man more he disappeared!

As I looked at the grey clouds above me and the first few geese arriving for winter I wondered, inbetween those geese that little space that changes shape is it alive is it moving is it a monster?

MORE INFO AND COMMENTS ;

"Beautifully illustrated" [Little Tiger Press]

drawn by award winning artist -Rebecca Winkle BA [Hons]
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'A children's adventure that captures the lifestyle, myths and wildlife of rural Caithness,Scotland.'

An interesting idea! [little tiger press]

"A delightful book " Prince Charles HQ Clarence House .

A TASTE OF CAITHNESS LIKE NO OTHER......