Friday, 25th September, 2015, was the big day – the day my first novel, The Wreck of the Argyll, was launched. My partner Sandra and I made the 400-mile trip up from Leicester the previous day – we usually drive up to Dundee about once a year, but this year we’ve become a bit more… Read More
Month: September 2015
Pugs of the Frozen North is the third collaboration between writer Philip Reeve and illustrator Sarah McIntyre, after Oliver and the Seawigs (reviewed on this blog) and Cakes in Space (one of my top books of 2014) and it’s the best yet – assuming you like pugs. I think pugs are great, with their comical… Read More
In one week, my book, The Wreck of the Argyll, is being launched in Dundee. It’ll be the first time I’ve been back in Dundee since the prize ceremony back in March, when it was announced that I’d won the Great War Dundee Children’s Book Prize, and I’m really looking forward to catching up with everyone… Read More
The Wolf Wilder is the story of Feo – short for Feodora – who lives in the snowy woods of Tsarist Russia with her mother. Both of them are wolf wilders – people who take in wolves who have been adopted as pets by aristocrats then abandoned when it became clear that a wolf could… Read More
Poppy Pym and the Pharoah’s Curse by Laura Wood is the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for new children’s writing, and it’s an excellent debut with a brilliant character in the eponymous Ms Pym who promises many more exciting adventures. Poppy Pym is an orphan, abandoned as a baby and brought up by the… Read More