A very quick post from me as I’m hurriedly packing a suitcase and getting ready to go off on World Book Day school visits for the rest of the week. I was thinking about space and nature and the impact ‘wild’ spaces have had on my imagination and writing ideas – the most important and … Continue reading
Category Archives: book groups
So long 2016! Hello 2017!
I’m so delighted to be joining the team on GirlsHeartBooks, it’s been one of my very favourite blogs for the last year or so and I’m looking forward to contributing over the next few months. So unless you were living under a rock last year you can’t have helped but notice that 2016 was … Continue reading
Want to Start A Secret Club? – Emma Barnes
Who hasn’t wanted to be part of a secret club? Passwords! Secret meeting places! Notebooks! Adventures! When I was a child, I remember lapping up the adventures of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven, who used to regularly go out and foil master criminals, in between having meetings in their garden shed. In my new book Chloe’s Secret Princess … Continue reading
Writing With Friends
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all having a fabulous summer! Last weekend I had the wonderful opportunity of launching my new book MUMNESIA in my hometown of Cambridge! But what made this launch extra special was that I wasn’t doing it alone. Fellow fab authors James Nicol and Helen Moss also had books published recently … Continue reading
Meet these future authors!
Hi girls (and boys!), I hope you’re having a great start to the spring. I am! Actually, three very exciting things happened to me today. One, it was warm enough to sit outside in the garden and read for the first time this year (yay! and not long till I get the hammock out, woo … Continue reading