Wind, fierce and sudden, rushes against the chapel. “They’re coming!” Poe shouts in ecstasy as he grips his pew. Leesel’s wild hair flies straight back, her eyes squinting as she faces the chapel door that bangs open. I tip back my head and watch the ceiling as it pulls away from the walls…peelings of white

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Top 5 Feisty Female Heroes in children’s books With the publication of my first novel, Greta and Boris: a daring rescue, I’ve been having a think about the books I enjoyed reading as a girl. Just like my book, most of the novels I devoured as a child featured interesting, strong and brave girl characters

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Let’s use story to transform ourselves. A snippet from the novel The Ghosting of Gods… Tombstones hunker in the shadows just fifty yards away.  I feel drawn to the graves, like always.  At the age of four I was identified by the church as being special.  I’ve never known how they knew I was different. 

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What inspired you to write Mistflower? I think, for a long time, I’d been struggling with the fact that some people can be cruel to animals when, unless there are particular circumstances, animals are so unconditionally loving and loyal. I was coming across examples and stories of animals showing spontaneous kindness and compassion to both

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Writing Charlee and the Child Angel by Anna Jordan The idea for this children’s book first came to me about twelve year ago! My eldest daughter was then aged 3 and although I’d been a poet for many years, I had never thought about writing a book. The idea that came to me was the

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