Oliver Coggin lives with his chaotic family in Dizzy Perch, a crazy house on top of a mountain somewhere remote in Scotland. With Pa away – on mysterious but exciting scientific research – Oliver keeps the household going. Not that everyone always listens to what he has to say. Or appreciates him. But what does Oliver want himself? He’d like to escape the house sometimes. He’d like a friend, like the new boy he sees in the village. Most of all, he’d like to understand why his father went away. And where’s he’s gone. So Oliver sets out on a long journey to get Pa back.
 | Diana HendryDiana Hendry is a poet, short story writer and the author of many children’s books. Diana was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary l997- 1998 and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh 2008-2010. She has published six collections of poetry: Making Blue (1995), Borderers (2001) both published by Peterloo; Twelve Lilts: Psalms & Responses (2003) and, with Tom Pow, Sparks! (2005) both published by Mariscat.; Late Love & Other Whodunnits (Peterloo/Mariscat 2008) and The Seed-Box Lantern: New & Selected Poems (Mariscat 2013). In 2013 she wrote the libretto for a choral work, The Pied Piper, music by John G Mortimer and performed in Switzerland. In 2015 she was one of the poets invited to write on the theme of creative ageing by the Baring Foundation and her poems can be found in the resulting anthology, Second Wind (Saltire Society, 2015) Hendry’s short stories have been widely published and broadcast and a collection, The Sweet Possessive is to be published by Red Squirrel in 2017. She has published more than forty books for children including Harvey Angell which won a Whitbread Award in 1991 and The Seeing (2012) which was shortlisted both for a Costa Award and a Scottish Children’s Book Award. Diana was awarded a joint Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship with Hamish Whyte in 2007. She is assistant editor of Mariscat Press. Diana’s latest children’s book is a junior novel, Out of the Clouds (Hodder 2016) with a sequel, Whoever You Are due out next year. Currently she is co-editor with Gerry Cambridge of New Writing Scotland |
