More about our Walking Stories Authors...
 

Wyl Menmuir

Wyl Menmuir is a novelist, editor and literary consultant based in Cornwall. His first novel, The Many, was nominated for the Man-Booker Prize and was an Observer Best Fiction of the Year pick. His short fiction has appeared in Best British Short Stories, Elementum Journal, Pipeline and has been published by Nightjar Press and National Trust. He has written for Radio 4’s Open Book and The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to the journal Elementum.

Marion Molteno

Marion Molteno has been visiting Scilly regularly since 1980. She is the author of four award-winning novels and a collection of short stories. Her novel Somewhere More Simple, set on the islands, was short-listed for the International Rubery Book Award in 2018.  Her other fiction reflects the cross-cultural range of her life experience - working with multi-ethnic communities and refugees in London - and travels in Asia and Africa for Save the Children, which provided the inspiration for her latest novel, Uncertain Light. If you can walk, you can dance, which draws on experiences of political exiles from South Africa and elsewhere, won a Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved children’s book writers. He has written more than 100 books and has won the Smarties Book Prize, the Whitbread Award, and the Blue Peter Book Award for Private Peaceful. Michael was writer-in-residence at the Savoy Hotel from January to April 2007, and previously he was Great Britain’s Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005, a role that took him across the country to inspire a love of reading in children.

Piers Lewin

Piers Lewin has lived with his family on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, since 1997. As a chef, dry-stone waller, musician and writer, he has embraced the historical Scillonian tradition of creative multi-tasking in order to piece together a living. He has come to love working with the produce of the island whether in the form of food from the land and sea, driftwood from the beach, granite from beneath the ground, music from the pristine soundscape or stories from the community’s collective consciousness. Piers has produced 10 albums of original music inspired by St Agnes, a recipe book, a collection of poetry and a large number of structures in granite and wood.

Sam Llewellyn

Sam Llewellyn is a Scillonian by birth, a sailor by preference, a novelist and sea columnist by profession and the Editor of the Marine Quarterly ('The thinking sailor's sea journal' - Tom Cunliffe). Besides some 20 seagoing thrillers, he has written two novels and several short stories based on Tresco, several children's books, including the Lyonesse series, set on Scilly, the Mount, and the drowned lands that now separate the islands from the mainland. He also wrote Augustus Smith: The Man who Built Scilly, a biography of the 19th Century visionary and autocrat who founded Tresco Abbey Garden and much of modern Scilly.