{"id":1279,"date":"2017-11-27T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2017-11-28T18:54:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:54:37","slug":"cover-reveal-the-wreck-of-the-argyll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnkfulton.com\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Cover reveal: The Wreck of the Argyll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am extremely pleased to announce that my first novel,\u00a0The Wreck of the Argyll<\/em>, is going to be reissued by Cranachan Publishing in early 2018.<\/p>\n

A WWI spy thriller for children based on the real-life wreck of HMS Argyll<\/em> on the Bell Rock Lighthouse, The Wreck of the Argyll<\/em> won the Great War Dundee Children\u2019s Book Prize in 2015.<\/p>\n

Here’s the synopsis:<\/p>\n

Dundee, 1915. When twelve-year-old Nancy suspects one of her teachers is a German spy, she ropes in the reluctant Jamie Balfour to help her uncover the scheme.<\/p>\n

Midshipman Harry Melville is aboard HMS Argyll<\/em> in the stormy North Sea, unaware of both hidden rocks and German plots that threaten the ship.<\/p>\n

Nancy and Jamie discover HMS Argyll<\/em> is in deadly danger and they are drawn into a web of espionage, secrets, and betrayal, where no-one is as they seem and no-one can be trusted.<\/p>\n

The Wreck of the Argyll<\/em> was first published in 2015 by Cargo Publishing, but didn’t get off to a great start in life when Cargo went under a few days before publication. Fortunately, Freight Books picked up Cargo’s backlist and allowed the publication to go ahead, but Freight has had its own well-publicised problems<\/a> of late, so when I got my rights back, I was thrilled that Cranachan, who published my\u00a0second book\u00a0The Beast on the Broch<\/em>\u00a0in 2016, offered my first book a new home.<\/p>\n

The fit really couldn’t be better – Cranachan’s YesterYear series concentrates on Scottish historical fiction for children, so The Wreck of the Argyll<\/em> joins stories about the Highland Clearances, the Second World War, and Victorian Scotland along with my own tale of Pictish times.<\/p>\n

I’m absolutely delighted with the new cover, which Anne at Cranachan designed. The original cover, by Michael Gallacher<\/a> for Cargo, was inspired by<\/a> Dundee schoolgirl Qynn Herd’s competition-winning drawing, and I asked Anne if she could produce a new cover that drew on that same inspiration – a silhouetted lighthouse, a purple sky, and barbed wire, and she’s produced a striking and dramatic cover image.<\/p>\n

Want a sneak peek of the first two chapters<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n