In the many years since The Prisoner first aired in 1967 there has never been a practical walking guide to Prisoner sites in Portmeirion. So, when Roger Goodman, one of the founding grandparents of what is now Six Of One, The Prisoner Appreciation Society, asked if I wanted to do the text to his long-contemplated idea, a Prisoner trail in Portmeirion, I agreed in a heartbeat.

Listen to just about any conversation visitors are having around Portmeirion Village and you are likely to hear someone mention The Prisoner. Often the person is looking to confirm where a particular action took place: Is this where the Prisoner lived? Is this where they had the chess match? Or looking for a particular place: How do I get to the Stone Boat? Since it would be impractical to signpost Portmeirion with the answers to these questions, the best thing to do is have a portable guide and map dedicated to the locations in Portmeirion that are scenes of action in The Prisoner.

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Native New Yorker Catherine Nemeth Frumerman launched her book On The Trail Of The Prisoner: A Walking Guide To Portmeirion's Prisoner Sites in the Prisoner Shop, Portmeirion, Gwynedd, North Wales on Tuesday, May 6th, 2003. The book is the first-ever dedicated walking guide to sites in Portmeirion that are seen in The Prisoner television series. UK news coverage follows.

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Initial reviews of On The Trail Of The Prisoner: A Walking Guide To Portmeirion's Prisoner Sites -- the first-ever dedicated walking guide to sites in Portmeirion that are seen in The Prisoner television series -- follow. They are from Ninnau, Action TV, The Unmutual and The Pennyfarthing.

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The day dawned bright with only a few gold-edged clouds in the east. Today, Tuesday, May 6th, was launch day for my book On The Trail Of The Prisoner: A Walking Guide To Portmeirion's Prisoner Sites. I'd have taken anything including a hurricane as a good omen. In fact, very early the previous Sunday morning I was awakened rolling back and forth in my Hotel Portmeirion bed, bed posts creaking, to an earthquake. It turned out no one else had felt it. I'd have thought I dreamed it, if not for my certainty that it had been real (I'd experienced an earthquake before) buttressed by the fact that the electric clock had lost power sometime during that morning. Ah, an earth-shattering good omen!

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"Satisfying an international appetite for a cult classic" -- Internet Works magazine, August 2003, awards the Priz.biz website the #4 slot in its Champions Of E-business awards, with its publication and launch of of On The Trail Of The Prisoner: A Walking Guide To Portmeirion's Prisoner Sites.

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The national magazine of Wales covers "The Prisoner & Portmeirion" -- a feature article about the show, the place and the book, On The Trail Of The Prisoner.

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The book "does bring to life facinating aspects of Portmeirion by linking sites in Clough Williams-Ellis' beautiful recreation of an Italian hill village to scenes in the surreal TV series."

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Marking the one year anniversary of the publishing of On The Trail Of The Prisoner and the sale of the first 2,000 books, Portmeirion held a Meet The Author day on May 15, 2003. Old friends and new stopped by. Here's a brief look at the day.

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Last month, writer Catherine Nemeth Frumerman was in the village in north-west Wales to promote her new book, On The Trail Of The Prisoner: A Walking Guide To Portmeirion's Prisoner Sites. The book is probably of most interest to Prisoner obsessives. However, it has almost as much information about the architecture and fascinating history of Portmeirion itself.

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The magazine tells its readers, "If you want to follow in the footsteps of Number Six (McGoohan) in the television series, get a copy of Catherine Nemeth Frumerman's walking guide to Portmeirion's Prisoner locations. On The Trail Of The Prisoner, available in the Prisoner Shop (Number Six's Cottage) at Portmeirion or visit www.priz.biz or www.portmeirion-village.com".

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DJ Bob Shannon's Halloween 2007 "Behind The Hits" show on UK satellite radio station VIP Radio included an interview with Cathy Frumerman about The Prisoner and On The Trail Of The Prisoner.

Listen to the radio interview:

DJ Bob Shannon's 2007 "Behind The Hits" Halloween show on UK satellite radio station VIP Radio included an interview with Cathy Frumerman about The Prisoner and On The Trail Of The Prisoner.

Listen to the radio interview: