Last night I dreamt an old journalist friend called me:  Lu, did you know you're in the Epstein files? No way! Yes! Five times! Don...

  Hello. Since some readers have kindly told me that they were tickled by my suggestion that we should say, “Pull along a chair”, rather tha...

  I love Jamila Gavin's stories and writing, Coram Boy being a particular favourite. So I treated myself to her recently published, much...

  It was a no brainer really. Being brought up surrounded by stories of mermaids, giants and mischievous piskies they were always going to s...

 No news to report for March. Wishing safe and happy travels to everyone doing school visits or going to the London Book Fair. If you have a...

I've been dreaming a lot lately about teaching. I don't know why, because It's more than ten years since I was last in a classro...

I'm looked back a lot lately, reconsidering my writing life.  Twelve years ago, this happened: 'The author was packing up after a bo...