City of Light is a Children’s Book Council Award Notable Book (after posting this video and all – but I mean everything I said)! The judges said: A highly original re-telling of the actions of the residents of Perth who created ‘The City of light’ for...
Greetings from 2024! Yesterday, I recorded the first three podcasts for the imaginatively entitled series How To Avoid A Happy Life: The Podcast. Producer Danae Gibson and I managed, through much laughter and more retakes, to not only record a fair/editable recording,...
Another Children’s Book Week has come and gone, and I was delighted to share stories with kids at Carmel School, Lesmurdie Library and High Wycombe Library for City of Kalamunda. I always love meeting readers and seeing their enthusiasm for books and writing. Thank...
It was twenty years ago today It felt wonderfully apt to be speaking (launching, after a fashion!) City of Light at the 20th anniversary of A Night With Our Stars. This event began as a twinkle in the eye of Jenny Woodroffe in 2003, and its light has been kept burning...
One day, several years ago, I was minding my own business when I got a message through the contact form on this website. I’ve had some lovely messages before – people in their twenties and thirties who loved my early novels when they were teenagers, researchers...
Dear Reader, it’s BookWeekMonth for creators of children’s and young adult books, as well as most teachers and long-suffering costume-creating parents around Australia. I was hugely thrilled to return to Kalgoorlie in Wongatha country for my first gigs there since …...
