Island's smuggling history inspiration for children's book
CHILDREN'S author-illustrator, Elizabeth Morley, has used the smuggling history of the Isle of Wight as inspiration for her fourth book. Suitable for readers aged seven to eleven, The Smugglers of Hog's Head Bay is published by Feed A Read and is available for £8.49 from Amazon, Waterstones and other online retailers. Elizabeth researched and wrote much of her book while based in Brighstone, where she lives when on the Island. The village appears in the story under the name of Bristlestone. As with her previous books, the author's latest adventure is set in a parallel world populated...
Source: countypress.co.uk