‘… One unforgettable evening he said: “I’ve been writing a fantasy for my readers…” He read the first two chapters of Shoebox Garden. Then stopped and said: “I think I can guarantee you a sleepless night…”

Wotan Althorpe’s fertile imagination and mastery of gripping narrative have never been better displayed than in this subtle and spectral thriller set in the sinister smiling countryside of a Northern moor town.

A mysterious voice calls out to two unseasoned travellers, whose haywire compass has entwined them within the ungodly machinations of the terrifying Green Policeman.

Strangers in a town that falls between the folds of every map, Flambert Naps and Joy Featherstone must rely on the watery moods of a curious gentleman from whose cottage emanates a peculiar light-show, and which houses the entrance to an eerie miniature world…