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The Stone

Throwers

Richard M. Meyer

KEY SELLING POINTS
A mystery-adventure set on a magical island.
The first in a quartet of stories which explores the supernatural adventures of children who find themselves
at odds with the ‘real world’ and distraught at the loss of their inheritance.
Inspired by the authors time spent on the Scilly Isles with his children.

A group of children, a philosopher and a merman fight to save a bewitched island.

Finding their spiritual home on a remote island threatened by a new hotel, two groups of somewhat
misanthropic children have no choice but to fight to save it. Intuitive imagination and dogged curiosity unlock
‘marginal lands’ which lie beyond the reach of mere adults.

In worrying adversity, they face and meet strange individuals and get caught up in surreal and bizarre
phenomena. Their only help comes from a laid-back American philosopher/painter who lives in an unearthly
shack in the woods, and a merman who seems to have emerged from the deep.

Increasingly alienated by darkening forces and adult greed, will the children manage to retain enough natural
strength, naivety and good humour to see them through their adventures?

Richard Mark Meyer (PhD) is a research ecologist specialising in badger conservation and breeding rare
species in captivity. He is also an expressionist painter, poet and writer of 12 non-fiction books as well as
around 100 article and papers on various subjects. He lives in Stromeferry.

Publication Date: 28th September 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805145288
Thema subject category: YFB – Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 280 pp Portrait Author location: Stromeferry

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