I was always one of the spooky kids – my bedtime reading was filled with ghost stories and my teenage fashion choices leaned towards goth....

  Hi I’m Lindsay Littleson and I’m the author of The Titanic Detective Agency. One of the main characters in the novel is Johan Cervin Svenn...

My book Kintana and the Captain's Curse is inspired by the 'Golden Age of Piracy' between the 1650s and the 1730s. Many people a...

Remember that time when we…? We often share precious memories, don’t we? We love to look back on times, people and places which are special ...

Since my first published children’s book, Black Powder , I have always included an heroic – and sometimes downright mischievous – animal sid...

  Meccano, Hornby Trains, Dinky Toys – these beloved classic toys were all the creation of one man – Frank Hornby! There is a bit of myste...

I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of magical rings in natural environments. My interest might have been sparked by the strange ring ...

Everyone knows about the Great Fire of London. When I go into Year 2 classes dressed as a bookseller from 1666, the children tend to know a...

Throughout history there have been many dangerous books. Sometimes books are labelled as ‘dangerous’ because they contain ideas that the aut...

Give me a stone castle and I’m happy! When I moved to Scotland in 1991, I was smitten with stone. It stirred something in me – the hulk...