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 Hot Cross Buns by Jessica Pearce Big Cat in Braintree by Jessica Pearce The Stones of Littlebury by Nancy Tennison A True Ghost Story by Sam Helmers Finley Wright, The Essex Serpent