Callum and the Mountain

PART OF THE Shelter ISSUE

‘The town, he decides, is a painful disappointment and everyone in it bears the blame – don’t they know they have a super-brain in their midst?’

Extract taken from Callum and the Mountain
By Alan McClure
Published by Beaten Track Publishing

Callum and the Mountain by Alan McClure is published by Beaten Track Publishing, priced £8.99

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