My local bookshop in north London has come up with a VERY unusual Christmas present – a voucher for AFTERNOON TEA WITH AN AUTHOR, who just happens to be ME! Want to know more? Check out the info below…
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So THIS is what my upcoming novel ‘Little Bird Flies’ will look like when it hits the shops in January 2019! Hope you like it as much as I do. And I ADORE it! The artwork is by New York-based illustrator Jasu Hu, and the design was put together by the lovely team at Nosy…
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I’ve got a very special book coming out in early 2019… one that I’ve been thinking about and dying to write for years. ‘Little Bird Flies’ is a drama/adventure set in 1860s Scotland, and my publisher – Nosy Crow – are sending out bound proofs to reviewers now (see photos). The cover is lovely, but…
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Stories and books can be long or short – it doesn’t affect how good they are. It’s the same for reviews; I LOVED seeing this one, sent to me by ‘Library Girl and Book Boy’. A girl called Harriet borrowed a copy of my latest ‘St Grizzle’s‘ novel… ‘St Grizzle’s School For Girls, Gremlins and…
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‘St Grizzle’s School for Girls, Gremlins and Pesky Guests’ is here, here, here! It’s number four in the series about a not-very-ordinary boarding school. Don’t they look nice together as a set? (Though the new one DOES have some gold bling on the cover – hope the other three don’t get jealous!) And I’m VERY…
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Eeek! One day to go till the fourth in my ‘St Grizzle’s’ series pings into the shops! Yes, I’m excited. Yes, Dizzy is too. #catsbookscatsbookscatsbookscatsbookscatsbookscatsbooks
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Every year, thousands of Year 7&8 students in participating schools across England and Wales get the chance to get their hands on a FREE book! (FREE!! How much of a bargain is THAT?!?) It’s all thanks to Bookbuzz, which is run by literacy charity Book Trust. They carefully select 17 books to suit all reading…
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My eagle-eyed nephew spotted my name on telly on Saturday night… one of a whole bundle of ‘Best-selling children’s authors’ mentioned as part of a question in the ‘Who Dares Wins’ quiz show. Technically, I’m not nearly as best-selling as SOME of the super-star authors mentioned, such as ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid‘s Jeff Kinney…
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On the official book birthday of ‘St Grizzle’s School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies’, I had a lot of fun talking to the Year 5s at Ralph Sadleir and Year 4s from Roger De Claire… and I’d like to say a big whoo-hoo in particular to all at Wormley School – especially the poor…
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As I said to the schools I visited this week in Hackney (looking at YOU, Sebright, Daubeney and Lauriston!), World Book Day is SO popular these days that it’s more like World Book Day WEEK! Wait a minute… I’m doing more visits next week, so does that make it World Book Day Fortnight?!? But as…
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