Tiddy Mun

by Michael Hutchinson

Tiddy Mun is a fictional story of an academic who gets drawn too closely into old tales of water spirits and witchcraft in the northern fens of Lincolnshire, England. A murder in the seventeenth century comes back to haunt his every move as he loses his grasp of what's real and what may be only lurking in his imagination.

426 pages, Paperback

Published January 26, 2018

About the author

Michael Hutchinson (or "Hutch") is a British racing cyclist and writer who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at events including the Commonwealth Games. His speciality is the individual time trial, but he has also won important races on the track. In 2003 he briefly held the national record for the 100 mile Time Trial; he covered the distance in 3 hours and 23 minutes. He also currently holds the 50 mile and 10 mile national records.

He has made two unsuccessful attempts at the hour record, the first of which forms the basis of his 2006 book The Hour. This won him the award for Best New Writer at the 2007 British Sports Book Awards.

Reviews

[Virginia Crow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Michael Hutchinson's Tiddy Mun is an energetic leap through the history of Axholme from the 17th century up to pre-Covid 21st century. The story is well-paced and the characters are credible. I feel that Andrew Pinder's character might have been further developed - and I wonder if therein lies another tale! I hope so because I found it difficult to put this book down. The background of Environmental Science/Ecology works so well with a story set in this fascinating landscape so altered by man's intervention and steeped in folklore and superstition.

I'd love to read another book by Michael Hutchinson - and I'd really enjoy a second tale about my native Isle! Either Michael Hutchinson has a similar background - or he has spent a great deal of time finding out about it!

[Dustin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tiddy Mun! This is my kind of book! Not overly written. It kept me interested the whole way through. It’s a wonderful, slightly detective mystery involving an old English water spirit, a spiritual medium, a wise old woman and her familiar black cat, a creepy room, a writer, an unknown body found in an ancient bog, a death, lots of water, magical amulets, and incantations! I absolutely loved it and highly recommend it.

[Sharon Dorival · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author brings a unique perspective to this narrative. The story follows an academic who became dangerously entangled in the old tales of the region.