Welcome to my new website!
Back in 2007, when I launched my first website, I thought, ‘Well – that’s that!’ But of course fashions change, and technology advances, and six years later my first website was looking old and creaky. So to coincide with my 50th birthday – here’s website number two! As you can see, it’s much more interactive, […]
Latest release: ‘How to Catch a Bogle’
My latest release is How to Catch a Bogle was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in North America in September. The book appeared in Australia in January 2013, under the title A Very Unusual Pursuit. The Australian sequel, A Very Peculiar Plague, was published in Australia in July 2013, but won’t be issued in North America […]
‘How to Catch a Bogle’ on ‘Best Book’ lists
How to Catch a Bogle (known as A Very Unusual Pursuit in Australia) has been named one of the best children’s books of 2013 by both Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, two highly respected American literary journals. Here are links for the Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus lists.
Thank you, Book People!
The Book People store in Austin, Texas, has just nominated How to Catch a Bogle as one of its six ‘Best Books for Young Readers’ in 2013. I’m very pleased about this because I know the store – or rather, I met some of its employees when I went to the Austin Teen Book Festival, […]
Young Adult Messages
Here are all the Young Adult Message Board postings, along with my replies, from my old website. 2013 Thursday, October 31 Q I’m a Brazilian child, but I have English lessons…But I can mistake…I read your book The Genius Wars and it all 2 more books of the collection and I think you’re one of […]
Kids Messages
Here are all the Kids Message Board postings, along with my replies, from my old website. 2013 Monday, November 11 Q How did you come up with the idea for The Paradise Trap? It is such a great book and it changed my mind about reading. I could not put it down. Are you making […]
Adult Messages
Here are all the Adult Fiction Message Board postings, along with my replies, from my old website. 2013 Monday, January 7 Q Just wanted to say thanks for everything you did when writing The Dark Mountain. Louisa Atkinson is my great Aunty (her sister is my great grandmother) and it was great to read your book […]
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