Honestly, you wouldn’t believe what James Northan tries to smuggle from Tassie to Ireland!
He fails of course. But it does catch up with him – and it causes the jumped-up galah to break down in tears at a dilapidated castle I’ve inherited.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
This is the story of how three men go to Ireland to trace family history – me enthusiastically, Jimbo shamefully and Oodles not engaged at all.
Fair dinkum, we meet characters from a parallel universe, including one long-lost cousin of Jimbo’s who will go on to play a big role in other books in the 10-book Windy Mountain series.
Meanwhile, a lot is going on back home at the Windy Mountain Tasmanian Tiger museum, and it’d hard to keep up via email.
You can find Blokes in Donegal in ebook on Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books, and Barnes & Noble. If you prefer the smell of paper and ink, the paperback is on Amazon too.
So go on , buy it — oh, and I forgot to say, I get the fright of my life when I open a kitchen cupboard and discover a Tasmanian TIger lurking in the dark. Fancy that? In Donegal! St Patrick must have been so busy banishing all the snakes from Ireland, he overlooked the Thylacines.
JOHN MARTIN 