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‘She wishes, out loud, for a way home – and she is answered…’
One of our most distinctive middle-grade fantasy writers is back! Alex Mullarky’s The Edge of the Silver Sea delivers everything you’d expect: memorable characters, lush Scottish landscapes, Celtic folklore and more. Listen to the author introduce and read from the book below.
The Edge of the Silver Sea
By Alex Mullarky
Published by Floris Books
The Edge of the Silver Sea by Alex Mullarky is published by Floris Books, priced £7.99.
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R.M. Murray
R. M. Murray is founding director and Head of Visual Art & Literature at An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis. He studied in Aberdeen and then at the Glasgow School of Art, where he was in a punk band with Peter Capaldi and Cr …
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