Stoat Hall

Much like the present day, the fourteenth century was an age of pandemics, economic crises, climate change, religious wars and political uprisings. And just as some might say the World Wide Web has broadened our horizons, so the translation of the Bible into English bought enlightenment in an age of ignorance and superstition. The great scholar, John Tyndale, is generally acknowledged as the driving force behind this monumental work, but of equal importance was his contemporary, Sir Edward Foxxe – a man whose name has been erased from history along with all traces of his dissolute followers, The Wreakers of Holy Havoc. This brief history seeks to rehabilitate them from the trashbin of oblivion, so if you are of a curious bent and have a spare half hour, slip a Milli Vanilli album on your Bang and Olafson, pour yourself a Cinzano Bianco, add two ice cubes and a slice of lemon, prop your Ray-Bans on the bobble of your nose, sit back in your Eames recliner and come on in.Cover by Amelie Ahern-Williams

The second short story in The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club series, The Owl and The Kitty Cat is a brief account of Barney and Kitty's elopement to the land where the Bong Tree grows. In a heart-rending finale, they are married without tarry by the Turkey who lives on the hill, watched by the Piggy-Wig with a ring in the end of his nose and the Pobble who has no toes..Inspired by the late, great Edward Lear.Cover illustration by Amelie Ahern-Williams