WISTASTON writer Michael Robinson has just published his third novel The Fireboy.

After the success of his previous novel The Tipping Point, he has continued to place the narrative in Crewe and Nantwich, depicting the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary stories.

In The Fireboy, the people of Nantwich are alarmed by a series of fires, not least Sergeant Tony Tricket and enraged farmer John Banks, who has been a victim of the arsonist and wants to take the law into his own hands.

When the old mill straddling the River Weaver is destroyed suspicion falls on a young boy, but on the night of the fire he disappears.

Is he the fireboy? And did he really die in the mill fire?

The novel moves to a gripping climax as the skyline of a small town changes forever, and a family torn apart by life come together again.

Michael said: "Like everyone in Nantwich I was shocked by the mill fire in 1970 and I wanted to write a story using the fire as the central feature for another adventure set in the town.

"Of course, it is fiction; time and geography have been changed for the sake of the story.

"This is the second of my Nantwich Chronicles."

Michael graduated from Crewe and Alsager College with a first class honours degree, and subsequently from Lancaster University with an MA in creative writing.

There will be a chance to meet the author at Nantwich Bookshop on Saturday between 11am and 12noon.