A Tail for All seasons volume 3 was launched on the 19th Novemver 2010.

As per the previous volumes it's a collection of 12 tales, one for each month of the year and each set somewhere on the Isle of Man.


January starts off with The Premonition by Colin Insole - an atmospheric and creepy tale of love, envy, greed and puppets all linked to the Ellan Vannin tragedy.

Next we have February's Traa-di-Liooar by Caroline Quaye and a tale which will have you looking behind you especially when the wind howls, the rain beats against the windows and its time for bed...

March rattles in with a new story Faulk Law by Peter Carle - A haunted house possessed by the dead and by something which should have been left buried a thousand years before, an old will and the Manx Government ... read on if you dare!

April blows in with Can you Tell Me? by Angie Greenhalgh - In this spooky tale modern psychiatry is mixed with a darker medieval past as the fate of a young girl hangs in the balance.

May goes back in time with An Ill Wind by Vivienne Higgins - Love and revenge goes hand in hand with the ancient battle all seafarers have with the elements. This will definitely give a taste of what it might have been like on the Island three hundred years ago for those whose lives and livelihoods were at the mercy of a fickle and malignant sea.

June raises a laugh with Race by Chris Ewan - A tale for the bikers amongst you set during TT fortnight and with a deliciously dark twist at the end.

July poses more questions than answers with The Niarbyl Tail by Aidan Alemson - can the past affect the present? How powerfull is the human mind? A story which mixes what happened on the Island during the second world war with a pair of American Tourists.

August will make you chuckle with a short black comedy Catch the Foxdale Ripper by Alan Lawton - A series of murders shocks the Island which only a desperate Private Eye and his comely apprentice can solve. A story which will have you looking at tomatoes in a totally new and unnerving way.

September sees a new take on an old legend The Curse of Finn Mac Cuill by Elaine Aulton - This should carry one of those health and safety notices before being read on the lines of don't do this at all! You have been warned.

October has a halloween feel with the spooky Steeplejack's Tale by Colin Fleetney - This is what happens when you combine greed with religion ... the revenge of an uneasy conscience or something much more sinister?

November has a new take on an old story of Boy Meets Girl by Allison Fletcher - A story of growing up and making good, despite everything, with a definite twist at the end.

December is a new departure with a story based on fact which you may in this day and age feel hard to believe. A funny thing happened on the way home from school by Dollin Kelly.

And finally just when you thought it was safe to close the book a very short story by the Island's first CWA Junior short story winner, Alison Ogden. Her story Dead End is not set in the Island but in a dark and shadowy underworld of crime, at least we at Priory sincerely hope that it never happens here!

A Tail for All seasons - volume 3 is on sale now and on the shelves of the following bookshops :-

Waterstones, The Lexicon, The Book Co, Bridge Bookshop, St. Paul's Bookshop, The Airport shop (departure lounge), W H Smiths, Laxey Woollen Mills, Gardners, Bertrams and from all UK bookshops via Nielsen book data. You can also order direct from ourselves by sending us a cheque for £9.99 which will include free P&P.

Happy Reading.