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Dunwich author pens book, Mystery Animals of Suffolk… (Suffolk News 07 10 23)

“Dunwich author pens book, Mystery Animals of Suffolk, which features big cat sightings in Bury St Edmunds and Wortham, near Diss”, article by Tamika Green in Suffolk News 07 October 2023. Linked from the article title above. (Suffolk News is the newswire website of Iliffe Publishing’s Suffolk newspaper titles, which include Bury Free Press.)

It comes with a warning this “this article contains images that some readers may find upsetting”.

The photo of the author from the article is wrongly attributed to Matt Salusbury, it is in fact © Jane Inglesfield, I am on it.

Local event to launch Mystery Animals of Suffolk, Dunwich, Sunday 22 October 2023

There is a local event to launch the recently published book Mystery Animals of Suffolk – including an account of over 150 mystery big cat sightings by Dunwich resident Matt Salusbury

On Sunday 22 October, 2pm-4.30 pm (last admission) at The Reading Room, St James’s Street, Dunwich, Suffolk IP17 3DT (behind Dunwich Museum).

Drinks and nibbles served. Meet the author. His large map showing big cat sightings across Suffolk will be on display.

Signed copies of Mystery Animals of Suffolk will be available to buy at a discount on the day. (Dunwich Museum nextdoor is open until 4.30 on that day, one of the last chances to visit it before it closes down for the winter at the end of October.)

Big cat witnesses and sceptics welcome! (Testimony of Suffolk Shuck sightings in the 1970s also accepted.)

 This is a hyper-local “soft launch”. A bigger event in Ipswich – accessible by public transport – is expected in early 2024. For further details get on the mailing list mysteryanimalsofsuffolk@gn.apc.org.

“Big cat investigator says Suffolk sightings are credible” – East Anglian Daily Times

The East Anglian Daily Times newspaper of 25 September 2023 has an interview with me, talking about Mystery Animals of Suffolk. I am told it will appear in print in the Monday 26 September edition.

Within hours of the article being published online, I had received two more reports of big cat sightings in Suffolk.

The first was a historical report of a sighting of a puma seen  in car headlights near Heveningham one night back in 2011.

The second report was a “muscly” black big cat slightly bigger than a German shepherd dog and with a “swishing” tail. The witness watched it for a minute as it moved slowly towards a stream – the River Fromus as it runs through the North end of Saxmundham, close to the A12 on 9 September 2023.

 

Distributor for Mystery Animals of Suffolk

Bittern Books, Norwich

Bittern Books, NorwichThe book Mystery Animals of Suffolk now has a distributor.

Bittern Books of Norwich will be getting the book into bookshops, museum gift shops and other outlets across East Anglia, including East Anglian branches of Waterstones, as well as getting it listed on Amazon shortly and available via their website.

Meanwhile, contact me on mysteryanimalsofsuffolk@gn.apc.org if you would like to buy a copy. The book’s already on sale at Dunwich Museum, Aldeburgh Bookshop, The Halesworth Bookshop and The Chocolate Box, Bungay.

 

Interview on BBC Radio Suffolk

There was an interview with Matt Salusbury, author of the book Mystery Animals of Suffolk on BBC Radio Suffolk’s “Steph Mack sits on the Johnnie Wright show” on 23 August.

The interview starts around 25.25 (25 minutes, 25 seconds in.) Link available ‘till 21 Sept, UK only. (The answer to “guess the village” immediately before I’m on is Kirton.) 

The link to the interview is on BBC Sounds, you may have to register (for free in the UK) and log in. For copyright reasons, the link is available until 21 September only, in the UK only. The link is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0g43bx5

Report of a sighting of a lynx in Kirton, Suffolk (East Anglian Daily Times, 27 August)

The East Anglian Daily Times reported on 27 August 2023 that a lynx had been spotted in a garden in the village of Kirton, on Suffolk’s Felixstowe peninsular, by a house hunter from London looking to buy a property there. Some locals interviewed by EADT were spectical. The article is here.

The British Big Cat Research Facebook group reported traffic on a local Facebook community noticeboards about a muntjac deer found dead with “puncture marks” around six weeks earlier.

Mystery Animals of Suffolk published 14 August

The book Mystery Animals of Suffolk – including an account of 150 mystery big cat sightings is published on 14 August 2023.

The author is interviewed live on BBC Radio Suffolk by Steph Mackentyre on Wednesday 23 August at around 14.20.

There’s a press release with details of the book here.

Mystery Animals of Suffolk is already on sale at:

Aldeburgh Bookshop

The Halesworth Bookshop

The Chocolate Box, Bungay

Dunwich Museum

It will be available to buy via this website shortly afterwards.

Review copies are going out to media outlets.

A book launch at a venue in Ipswich is expected in the autumn. Watch this space for developments – email mysteryanimalsofsuffolk@gn.apc.org to get on the mailing list, or fill in the “subscribe” form below:

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