Tarantula Tide

Tarantula Tide

Smugglers. Vikings. Shetland should be a fascinating place for a holiday, but Jack is harboring a secret and is less than enthusiastic to be there. Then he meets Izzie and her exotic pets and things soon start to get more interesting: Jack finds an unexpected visitor underneath the fridge; the wandering tramp is not what he seems, and each night a mysterious person waits on the beach outside Jack’s cottage. But what do all these have to do with an unusual visitor named Octavia?

Jack and Izzie unwittingly find themselves in the middle of a dangerous adventure, wondering what the next tide will bring to the land of the Viking Fire Festival.

Tarantula Tide was the winner of the Kelpies Prize 2008 and winner of the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award 2010.

About the Author

Sharon Tregenza was born and grew up in Cornwall. She currently lives with her husband in an old mill house in Carmarthenshire in Wales. She has an MA in Creative Writing and has had almost four hundred stories, poems and articles published worldwide. One of her poems has been included in Pan Macmillan’s recent poetry anthology, There’s a Hamster in the Fast Lane. She was inspired to set her book on Shetland when her husband worked on the island and she fell in love with the warm people and varied wildlife.

You can also visit the author’s own website at http://www.sharontregenza.com