Mucking about: Being the Adventures of a Boy Living at That Time in Ireland When the Old Ways Were Changing and the New Ones Were JusPaperback, 6 September 2018

We are in Ireland and it's an awfully long time ago - centuries and centuries. Manchán's mother wants to make a monk of Manchán, but Manchán isn't having any of it. He'd much rather be mucking about with his pal Pagan, or making up songs, or tramping through the forest with his pet pig, Muck. And who wouldn't swap turnips and prayer for fun, adventure and mucking about?