Imagining a Brave New World

I am currently at that very exciting but very daunting stage of planning a new novel.  I’m using the word ‘new’ in the loosest sense, because it’s actually going to be based on a novel I wrote about five years ago.  It was rejected by publishers at the time and of course with the benefitContinue reading “Imagining a Brave New World”

The New Children’s Laureate

Malorie Blackman has been appointed as the new Waterstones Children’s Laureate, a two year post that will see her banging the drum for children’s literature, with a special focus on encouraging reading throughout the age groups. One of Blackman’s best known works is the Noughts and Crosses trilogy, set in a dystopian world where theContinue reading “The New Children’s Laureate”