History was my favourite subject at school and it still fascinates me today – I’ve always got a pile of history books next to my bed (my f...

Hi, I was absolutely delighted to be asked to make a film about mudlarking* for the Time Tunnellers.  If you don’t know, mudlarking is searc...

If you go into a bookshop or library today there will be a Children’s Section – of course there will. And you will be spoilt for choice. The...

Where do you get your ideas? For me the things I want to write about are the same things I was passionate about as a child. I loved daytri...

My favourite books and films have always been the ones based true stories, which is probably why I became an author of nonfiction books. One...

  Familiar flowers fill the shop windows wherever you look at this time of year. Of course – it’s February and the run-up to St Valentine’s ...

My children love Edith Nesbit’s books. I love them too! I remember reading them when I was younger, and now my children listen to them in th...