See you at the Hay Festival!

Tomorrow at 4pm, I'm on a panel with my favourite author Geraldine McCaughrean with my favourite illustrator Sarah McIntyre as our moderator! Both Geraldine's latest book and mine are rife with calamity - Geraldine's Pull Out All the Stops has a flood, and Tall Story, an earthquake. So here's a drawing...

Lovely, lovely Leeds Book Prize

Me and my publisher David Fickling at the Waterstone's Prize night Tall Story's been short-listed for quite a few lovely book prizes - most recently the Branford Boase - but do you know, apart from screenshots of websites, I have no tangible evidence of these honours, no not even a letter (and the...

A Schools Reading Festival - Hooray for Southwark!

The last time I was at the Dulwich Picture Gallery was for the launch of Sarwat Chadda's Devil's Kiss and it was dark, raining, and there were knights fighting on the lawn ... oh, and I was still a despairing unpublished novelist. Yesterday I returned as one of the authors featured in the brilliant...