{"product_id":"a-tintagel-tale-robert-porter-9781911879893","title":"A Tintagel Tale: The Discovery of a Cornish Pixie","description":"\u003cp\u003eEleven-year-old Tillie expects a family holiday in Cornwall to mean windswept ruins, rainy afternoons and listening to her archaeologist mother and historian father debate what the past can really prove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe does not expect to find Jowan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden beneath a stone at Tintagel Castle is an injured, sharp-tongued Cornish piskie with no wings, a talent for trouble and very definite opinions about humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTillie does the only thing that seems reasonable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe hides him in her rucksack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when Jowan accidentally travels back to Bude with her family, Tillie discovers that another Cornwall exists beneath the familiar one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncient paths remember footsteps that vanished centuries ago. Mine tunnels answer with three mysterious knocks. Strange lights move through the darkness. The sea keeps bargains of its own. And sometimes, when Jowan takes Tillie by the hand, the modern world falls away and Cornwall remembers what once stood there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Jowan begins to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt first it is small things-a word, an offering, a place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen roads disappear from his memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNames vanish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd eventually, even the people he loves begin slipping away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArmed with the battered green diary her mother bought her at Tintagel, Tillie becomes determined to record everything before it is lost. Her search takes her deeper into Old Cornwall, where piskies, Knockers, forgotten paths, ancient stories and the powers belonging to Cornwall's cliffs, mines and sea are far more complicated than the legends humans have written about them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Tillie soon discovers that forgetting isn't the only danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome roads disappeared for a reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome stories have been remembered incorrectly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd bringing the past back without understanding it can have consequences for the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the boundary between history, folklore and something much older begins to break down, Tillie must decide what should be remembered, what should be allowed to fade-and whether saving someone means holding on to them or knowing when to let them go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of everything is an unlikely friendship between an eleven-year-old girl and a frightened, stubborn, mischievous Cornish piskie who lives by one simple rule: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou don't leave the lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Tintagel Tale: The Discovery of a Cornish Pixie is a magical adventure through Tintagel, Bude, Boscastle and an older Cornwall hidden beneath them-a story of friendship, memory, history and the strange places where fact becomes folklore and folklore becomes something that might just be true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome places remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd some friendships never truly fade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911879898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911879893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Porter Professional Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.61d","brand":"Robert Porter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780009431295,"sku":"9781911879893","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-tintagel-tale-robert-porter-9781911879893","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}