*TAH-DAH!!* My newest book is out today! ‘The Boy Who Stole The Pharaoh’s Lunch’ is a time-slip novel, where Seth – a modern day schoolboy and class clown – finds himself whisked back to #AncientEgypt. Seth’s adventure starts after a prank gone wrong. When he bursts into an assembly in an unravelling ‘mummy’ costume, Seth …
KINSHIP: When I was dreaming up ‘The Broken Dragon‘, I knew I wanted to write about Kinship Care, where children are ‘fostered’ by family members, an arrangement that’s more common than many people realise. And as three people I know are bringing up their grandchildren, it meant a lot to me to cheer on these …
What a start to the year! It’s only January 5th, and today my 100th published book – ‘The Mystery of Flat 6B’ – hits the bookshelves (real and virtual). When I wrote my first book more than 20 years ago, I didn’t know if I’d ever be lucky enough to have a second one commissioned …
The Starboy is a young alien stranded on earth. Kiki and Wes are two Year 7s who don’t fit in. If you want to know more about their out-of-this-world friendship, then you can can enter my giveaway here! I’ve got 3 sets of HOW TO BE A HUMAN and HOW TO BE AN ALIEN, and …
Yep, ‘How To Hide An Alien‘ – sequel to ‘How To Be A Human’ – has its book birthday today! If you want to find out more about the continuing adventures of the stranded alien Star Boy – and his bewildered human friends Kiki and Wes – it’s all here, ready and waiting for you… …
One month to go: ‘How To Hide An Alien’ – the follow-up to ‘How To Be A Human’ – publishes on July 7th. Find out how the stranded alien school boy is getting on in his newly adopted home town… (Spoiler: BADLY!) *Delicious covers: #ThyBui*
A while back, I was watching the musical ‘Oliver’ with my (grown-up) kid when I suddenly thought how much fun it would be to write a spin-off of ‘Oliver Twist’. It took a couple of weeks of noodling around with ideas, till I came up with ‘Fagin’s Girl’, which is set just before the period …
A kid finds a crash-landed alien kid… Hmm, the new John Lewis Christmas ad seems familiar! Maybe like a book I once read? Or WROTE, even! “It’s very nice of John Lewis to help promote ‘How To Be A Human’, someone joked on Twitter. But hey, I do LOVE a coincidence…
What would YOU do if you found a stranded alien hiding in your school? Kiki and Wes don’t know each other very well, but they have to team up pretty quickly when they realise they’re the only ones who can help the lost and far-from-home Star Boy. And of course helping the alien means teaching …
‘Granny’s Little Monsters‘ is a brand new story I’ve written for younger readers (out August ’21 from Barrington Stoke). My own little monster (Bonnie the Westie pup) is very keen on it. Not the story so much as seeing how chewy the book is… As for the story, it’s about cousins Zac and Essie, who …
