Colin MacIntyre on the Headless Horseman, Mermaids and The Letters of Ivor Punch / via @onebooklane Happy Trick or Treating

‘I am a native of Mull – an isle that sits in the Atlantic as part of the Scottish Hebrides – and it’s where, some might say, my novel The Letters of Ivor Punch is based. Folklore, mystery and the handing-down of stories are important to the fabric of a place and those who live there, and I think this is particularly so on Mull. It must be the surrounding sea that keeps them alive, bound up in the people and the half-light of teenage evenings…’ Read more