May

01

It's May Day!

It's May Day! So, how many of you lovely girls are busy ironing your long frocks and getting ready to dance around the maypole and fight for the h.....Read more

Mar

28

Flu and a competition...x

Hello! Right now I'm in bed with flu. I don't mean a bad cold, or a slightly whoozy thing - I mean properly, grown-up, textbook flu. Flu enough to mean I had to cancel an entire day of patients, a day of coaching in London, and two writing workshops in Birmingham. I'm shocked because I never do this - I usually manage to carry on somehow. But this has floored me. Or more precisely, bedded me. .....Read more

Feb

23

"Don't forget your woolly vest!"

I'm really busy at the moment as I'm getting ready for the the launch of my new book, Invisible Girl, (out June 7th). It tells the story of 12 year-old, Gabriella Midwinter, who, after being abandoned by her dad, finds herself living alone on the streets of Manchester. Read more

Jan

31

An angel in disguise... x

If you've ever spent time with a librarian you might have been fooled into believing they were an ordinary, everyday kind of person, just like you or I. Read more

Dec

31

Happy New Year!

To make a resolution or not? Ho hum... that is the question! It's 7.15pm on New Year's Eve, which means in just under five hours time it'll be 2013 and the big question looming over my head is... shall I make some New Year's resolutions or not? Read more

Nov

25

Everyone's a Storyteller... x

 Some people need only to start recounting the story of something that happened and before you know it a gaggle of sparkly-eyed, open-mouthed people have gathered around them and are hanging on every golden word… Read more