There’s an elephant in my kitchen, IT’S TRUE, I kid you not! She’s found the chocolate biscuits! She’s eating up the lot! When I asked politely who had let her...

In 2017, I developed a grand passion for a doomed expedition. Sir John Franklin, his second-in-command Frances Crozier, and their crew left England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus...

In October 2016, I sat in a theatre in Kilkenny among an audience of lively eleven and twelve-year-olds. The story of a boy caught up in the 1916 Rising was...

When Bookouture made an offer to publish The Queen’s Wing, my strange little space opera fantasy, I was over the moon, to say the least. Often a book just has...

For each one of us, seeing the horizon has a different meaning. Every individual connects personal stories to the horizon and in my picture book Beyond the Horizon I would...

From Becky Thorns: The World of Whales has been a labour of love for me over the last year. I’ve always loved sea-life but whales have always held a special...

I’ll never forget the voice in my head on a bumpy plane ride to Florida from Boston on frosty November morning back in 2015. She was a child, probably around...

Sam Copeland is an author. He is from Manchester and now lives in London with two smelly cats, three smelly children and one relatively clean-smelling wife. He works as a...

A writer in the eye of the publishing industry This is a profile about a writer. The writer is me, but I’m going to talk about her behind her back,...

Nick East has been an author-illustrator since 2012. In this relatively short period of time, he has been shortlisted for the English Picture Book awards, Long-listed for The Evening Standard’s Oscar’s...