Katie’s drawing is inspired by The Essex Serpent novel, which won the British Book Awards Book of the Year in 2016, is set in a fictional village called Aldwinter, on the edge of the Blackwater marshes, near Colchester. Colchester creature Essex Serpent Related Black Shuck chases his Tail by Seren Hiscox, 22 The Ghostly Mariner of Walton on the Naze by Trevor Pyne Boudica – Warrior Queen A True Ghost Story by Sam Helmers The Green Man by Jeremy Tilston