Hooves Above The Waves: Tales of Kelpies and Other Scottish Curiosities - Paperback
Hooves Above The Waves: Tales of Kelpies and Other Scottish Curiosities - Paperback
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by Chiara Pieri (Illustrator), Laura Clay (Author)
Long-forgotten creatures stir beneath a desolate Highland loch. Ordinary men with extraordinary powers realise they don't have to play the heroes. A shipwrecked sailor wakes up in a remote lighthouse, far from home, and realises his safe haven is not as it seems. Three supernatural stories by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Emerging Writer Laura Clay, inspired by the landscape and mythology of Scotland. Features Loch na B iste, read at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival as part of the Story Shop initiative.
Author Biography
Laura lives in Edinburgh and loves to write about the supernatural creatures living all around us, the dark and horrific, and people living on the edges of society. Her short stories and flash fiction have been published by The Scottish Book Trust, appeared in anthologies and exhibited in The Museum of Childhood by writing collective 26, and her next short piece 'A Beltane Prayer' will be published in a collection by Freight Books in autumn 2016. She was selected as one of 17 local emerging writers by City of Literature, and read her story 'Loch na B鑛ste' at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as part of the Story Shop programme. A regular attendee of City of Literature's monthly salon, she is currently querying her first novel, an urban fantasy set in Edinburgh.
