Like history teacher, Kevin Nutt, the hero of this entertaining new book, David Hoyle sets off on a captivating voyage of discovery. What results is a story which has wit and imagination, combined with all the ambition and raw edges you would expect from a first novel. Our hero follows a weird series of events which lead him from a north country pot-hole and a group of reprobate schoolboys, to a strange Cumbrian town with a secret past and an even stranger set of present day inhabitants. If mysterious crystals, swash-buckling mythology and romance, tinged with more than a touch of slapstick and the modern day surreal tickles your fancy, then Grint's Gate is the book for you.