Introducing the Snorgh

It was several years ago now that my good friend, the shockingly talented illustrator Thomas Docherty (not to be confused with Thomas Docherty the literary theorist…) suggested that we might perhaps work together on a children's picture book. And so after a great deal of discussion and much behind-the-scenes fun, we ended up putting together an idea for a story about a lonely, miserable and decidedly antisocial marsh-dweller called the Snorgh, and his unexpected adventures with a shipwrecked sailor.

I'm delighted to say that The Snorgh and the Sailor is going to be published next year by the wonderful Alison Green Books, and that in the last week the book has quietly appeared on Amazon.co.uk so that the extra-keen can buy their advanced copies. I'll be posting more Snorgh-related news closer to the publication date; but I thought it time that I formally introduced the Snorgh. So, here goes: Everybody, meet the Snorgh; Snorgh, meet everybody… (This is the point at which point the Snorgh, being antisocial, snuffles off to be by himself. What can you do with such people?)