Much-praised, well-reviewed winner of a People's Book Prize. The Salt-Stained Book is a sailing adventure novel which has proved popular with adults and older children alike. The Salt-Stained Book pays homage to Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons but remains completely comprehensible to people who have never read Ransome or stepped on board a boat. The action is deliberately kept local and specific as the teenage hero, Donny, awaits the arrival of his unknown great aunt from Shanghai. Issues of disability and abuse of power are important themes within the novel but primarily it's an exciting story with characters to touch the heart and an powerful emotional range. Sailors and Ransome lovers additionaly relish the authors lifelong relationship with his yacht Peter Duck. This has already gained the Salt-Stained Book readers in Japan and New Zealand. A translation into German is in progress and the book was recently read at the Flensburg Book Festival (Sept 2014) The Salt-Stained Book has sold almost 4000 copies in its print edition and is also popular as a Kindle ebook and an audio download. It should be welcome wherever outdoor adventure is enjoyed. "I loved it," said Griff Rhys Jones, author, TV presenter and sailor.