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”
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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”