Kirkcudbright Library is delighted to host author Sara Bain as she introduces her latest book The Ghost Tree, as 
part of their Book Week Scotland celebrations (23 – 29th Nov). The Ghost Tree has local significance as it is inspired by the “true account” of the Mackie, poltergeist which haunted a stonemason and his family for a few months in 1695 near Auchencairn.
Journalist Sara Bain said “When I interviewed a few of the locals over ten years ago, I was told of the legend of the Ghost Trees, all that is currently left of the original plantation. There were apparently three of them in living memory but only one now stands. Folk lore has it that, when the last of the Ghost Trees die, the Rerrick Parish Poltergeist will return.”
The Ghost Tree can be described as a paranormal mystery/romance set in a fictitious house on the former site of the Ringcroft of Stocking. It follows the misfortunes of a Sutherland man who has bought the house and is plunged into a living nightmare when he realises he has a supernatural lodger hell-bent on making his life a misery.
“I have based the story in a contemporary setting and, although placed the characters in the right geographical location, there is no such place as The Ring steading, the characters are purely fictitious and, so far as I am aware, the last of the Ghost Trees is very much alive and well.”
Sara is a former journalist for the Dumfries and Galloway Standard; is a freelance press officer for The Dumfries and Galloway Arts 
Festival and Absolute Classics; and recently took up the post as editor for the Nithsdale Times.
The Ghost Tree is her second novel. The first, The Sleeping Warrior, was published in December 2013 and has received high praise from reviewers.
Meet Sara at Kirkcudbright Library on Thursday 26th November at 7.00pm. This event is free and everyone will be made most welcome.
Councillor Tom McAughtrie, Chair of Community and Customer Services Committee said: “Book Week Scotland is an opportunity for everyone in the community to share their love of reading and what better way to get to know a book than by an introduction from the author herself?”
For further information contact Kirkcudbright Library on 01557 331240 or for more Book Week Scotland events visit www.dumgal.gov.uk/lia
