Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Anyone interested in children's or YA fiction will probably want to have a look at Write4Children , a new online academic journal devote...

My mother - the one who turned her car upside down a few weeks ago: the bruises are fading - has always had a beautiful singing voice.  She...

Polly the puppy is twelve weeks old now and has easily doubled in size.  She’s still quite obviously a baby, but she’s gained in swagger ...

Here is my grandmother – my mother’s mother – as a young woman.  She was born in 1892 and her name was Emmeline Mary Sherwood, though eve...

First posted at the Awfully Big Blog Adventure which can be found here , these are some thoughts about writing dialogue. If hearing voices...

Imagine the scene.  Mother's Day here in the UK, a beautiful early spring day with warm sunshine, and I'm sitting in the conservator...

Polly the puppy is currently ruling my life during every waking minute of hers. Things will change week by week, but at the moment she sle...