Böcker av Martyn Benford

Ten years on, Maccy Tamryn, eccentric landlord of the Mermaid and Bow public house, finds Kansas is no place to hide from the pain and loss of a loved one. Maccy will continue his entrepreneurial journey into Little Petrock, a short distance from Padstow Town and into the open arms of The Maltsters. Maccy's crew shrank by one when semi able seaman, One Armed Frank, walked the plank. Others have joined the Watch. Jill & Jack, Lavinia and Peter have come aboard. Dusty, Lenny, Lil the Tart, trainee minister, Methy Mick and a half faced Alsatian remain on duty. Will a nameless face from the past muddy the water causing ripples in Maccy's melancholia?"Maccy, do you know your brother has a Yurt?""A what?""A yurt!""Then he needs to see a doctor and get it removed!""Say 'Wosson' Peter.""What?""Nothing like it!""Jill, hoover the dog and whatever there is underneath it.""I think the animal likes you, Lenny.""How do you knaw?""He's eating the bottom of your bleddy jeans!""So where are you staying, Peter?""Here would be good, I'm out of petrol!""Lavinia, send the goat away with a flea in it's ear.""Where will I find one of them, Maccy?""Have a look in it's bleddy ear maid!"

Padstow, home of The Mermaid and Bow Inn with Blencathra, the all-pervading landlady and her cowardly partner, Cap'n Bligh.Macdonald Tamryn, a fatherless, soon to be eighteen-year old, dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Will an Irish stranger put a spanner in the works?Lil the Tart, Lenny, The Birdseyes, a half faced Alsatian and the remainder of the crew, a harbourside mish mash of eccentricity, all play their part in Maccy's dream.'If One Armed Frank still possessed two arms, he wouldn't have a nick name at all, he'd just be plain old Frank the Firestarter!''Blencathra huddles on a salt-encrusted blanket. A seaweed covered bone wedged firmly in her slathering jaws.' The dog is sleeping beside her!''The bleddy dog got 'is nose caught in a speed-boat propeller, 'e was swimming too bleddy fast!''I promise never to eat sandwiches with meat in again, especially if the meat is still alive.'