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Lockdown Stories Return!
Posted on January 5, 2021
Lockdown time means Storytime is back! I will be reading The Dark Wild, the second book in The Last Wild trilogy, out aloud at 2.30pm every weekday fr…
Corona Virus – Update
Posted on March 19, 2020
I hope everyone is keeping safe at this challenging time for us all. Sadly all my school and public events are either cancelled or postponed, check back for details in due course. If you want to stay…
Adapting Christmas Carol
Posted on December 11, 2019
When Charles Dickens published his ‘little Christmas book’ in 1843, it took just six weeks for the first adaptation to reach the stage. It played in London for more than forty nights before transferri…
Christmas Carol – Schools Drawing Competition
Posted on September 30, 2019
To celebrate the forthcoming Wilton’s Music Hall production of my new play Christmas Carol – a fairy tale they are running a drawing competition for Key Stage 2 (Years 3 – 6). We would like you to dra…
Paul Torday Prize 2020 open for entries!
Posted on August 2, 2019
Paul Torday published his first novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen aged 60. The family have decided to set up this new prize in Torday’s honour, celebrating first novels by authors aged 60 or over. The…
Happy National Writing Day!
Posted on June 26, 2019
It’s National Writing Day 2019 and I am celebrating with the fantastic creative writing centre The Ministry of Stories. Catch my video of writing tips below, or download their FREE Last Wild creative…
Shortlist for inaugural Paul Torday Memorial Prize
Posted on May 15, 2019
The shortlist for the inaugural Paul Torday Memorial Prize was announced today by The Society of Authors. It will be awarded to a first novel by a writer over 60. Prize fund £1,000 plus a set of the c…