Jamie and the Tree Troll
by Zsolt Kerekes -
author at goblinsearch.com My
book - Jamie and the Tree Troll is available in the following formats
from leading online book suppliers.
review (Sep 29, 2024) - "What an imaginative story - to the point it almost seems a retelling of a true story- or is it? Excellent - thoroughly recommended!" |
| Met a reader of my
book. "How much of it is true?" - she asked. "All of it," - I said. "Including the tree troll?" I thought back to 20+ years before when I had been a frequent visitor to my family's house in the woods on the South Downs. "Yes," - I replied. and this is the way we got there |
December 11, 2024  I
really didn't expect this. Out of the 4 books I published last year - the one
which has outsold all the others in 2024 has been
Jamie and
the Tree Troll a new legend of the South Downs in Sussex. I'm beginning to realise that it has an appeal to adults too. Readers apparently enjoy its depictions of everyday modern life rubbing frictionlessly alongside rural folklore and it satisfies a yearning for discovering a lost local mythology. My little book won't change your life. But its stories inside the story may add to the rich store of associations with certain nearby places in Sussex (in the Hassocks / Ditchling / Clayton / Brighton parts of the South Downs). PS - And if you live nearby the paperback at £4.50 might make a nice warming present for someone at Christmas. (Log fires and the difficulties of ever getting warm in an old cold house being a significant theme in the story.) Zsolt Kerekes, East Chiltington |
 Jamie and the Tree Troll - audiobook now availablenews: April 7, 2024 - Apple Books has produced an audiobook version of my novel for kids Jamie and the Tree Troll - a new legend of the South Downs in Sussex (running time 2hrs 15 min approx). Click here to hear to hear the first few chapters free |
| I'm more cautious about
swearing in my written work than in conversation because I don't know who's
reading or why.
Came a decisive point in my childrens book - Jamie and the Tree Troll - when I had to invent a context aware expletive. "Sizzling sauropods" google it and see |
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