Fancy having a personally signed book?
I’m often asked how people can get hold of a personally signed copy of one of my books, either for themselves or as a present for someone. So I thought…
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Daredevil Dolly!
Can you imagine being sixteen, having half-an-hour’s training and then jumping out of a hot air balloon with a flimsy parachute? That was how the brave and daring Dolly Shepherd…
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New member of the family!
There’s a new pup in the house – how will I ever get any work done with this amount of cuteness to distract me? Her name is Bonnie and she’s…
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Grabbing the good news!
Yep, it’s been a totally weird year, but like everyone I’ve been making the most of every small pleasure and every bit of good news going. So I thought I’d…
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Over-the-moon news!
I’ve just found out today that ‘LITTLE BIRD FLIES’ has been nominated for the super prestigious CILIP Carnegie Children’s Book Awards! It’s the first time I’ve ever had a book…
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Coming soon…!
I haven’t written a blog in AGES, but not because I’ve been lazy… it’s the complete opposite; I’ve been busy writing and editing the sequel to ‘Little Bird Flies‘ –…
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‘Little Bird Flies’ audiobook – available NOW!
So the ‘Little Bird Flies’ audiobook is now available! If you want to hear what Little Bird sounds like, you can download it from Amazon, Audible and Apple. And you…
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‘Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Week!!
Q: How chuffed am I today? A: VERY! Because ‘Little Bird Flies’ has just been made ‘The Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Week. I have celebrated with a very…
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Today, Little Bird Flies!
It’s the official book birthday of my new novel, ‘Little Bird Flies’, a historic adventure set on a remote Scottish island, from publishers Nosy Crow. I’m having a wee launch…
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Little Bird finds her voice!
So the book version of ‘Little Bird Flies’ comes out this Thursday (10 Jan) but the audio version will be coming soon… and here is a photo of actor Helen…
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