Creatures Set Forth: A New Book from the Thciket

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Like the other creature books, this one is a stand-alone collection, though it has all sorts of secret links to the stories in the other two. This book does not feature advice, and has a bunch of tiny stories instead. It is about the end of the summer, the reasons people might leave one place and go to another place, and about journeys long and short. 

It's available on Amazon as a paperback and an e-book. 
Amazon UK links: paperback; e-book

Review snippets: 

"The combination of word choice, unparalleled imagination, unexpected yet just right structure and form of the writing checks every possible box for me. And the delightfully endearing drawings are the icing on top of the cake" (Helen Whistberry)

"There are many stories, one great story, and no story at all. A tender and indefinable work of art and language that may well leave you stranded in a fairy circle you have no desire to leave." (Cassondra Windwalker)

"A surreal mixture of fantastic reality and reliable fabrication, more spiky than Milligan and sharper than Cutler, and like them, sometimes hiding sadness behind the joy of the absurd." (AJ77)






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