Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  For nefarious reasons connected with my next book, I’ve been investigating towers, and as one thing leads to another and fictional ...

There was a bit of controversy at this year’s Edinburgh Festival when Anne Fine was quoted or misquoted about her views on the suitability o...

I’ve just finished reading a post, by Anne Cassidy, about teachers and reading on the Awfully Big Blog Adventure .  Argument raged in the...

Why write for children? Each time I’m asked this, I probably come up with a different answer, and sometimes I’m tempted to be a little sha...