A SCOTTISH publisher is trying to get in touch with the son of an Oxfordshire author on the subject of unpaid royalties.

Ayrshire-based Stenlake Publishing is trying to find Derek Honey's son Michael Robinson.

The royalties are in connection with Mr Honey's 1998 book, An Encyclopaedia of Oxford Pubs, Inns and Taverns.

Stenlake, which won the rights to the book when it took over the previous publisher three years ago, said it had been told by the last firm that Mr Honey had died.

Now it is trying to contact Mr Honey's son Michael Robinson, who he was reunited with in 2014 after 48 years.

As the Oxford Mail reported that year, Mr Honey had agreed for his ex-wife's new husband to adopt their son when he was still a young boy.

They had lost touch and never spoken again until another relative discovered the connection and helped them get in touch, when Mr Robinson was then living in Florida.

Mr Honey's pub encyclopaedia, first published by The Oakwood Press, traces the stories of more than 700 licensed premises in Oxford, many of them from early Norman times.

It also boasted a forward by Mr Honey's fellow Oxford author and Inspector Morse creator Colin Dexter.

Anyone who has contact information for Mr Robinson is asked to contact the Oxford Mail on news@nqo.com or call 01865 425422.