Nonsense poems have delighted our childhoods and colored our imaginations to portray that anything is possible. Children delight when we recite them. My Welsh Grandmother would make up her own. I went like this. Lauren…
I just discovered some book illustrators and cover designers were never credited by Collins. In particular the first UK editions of Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient, published in 1934. Maybe Collins were not alone…
Ten years of research and a couple of years to write, this is the story of Brighton artist Harry Killbuck. It is a tragic tale. I thought it would be good to start featuring the…
Corners are the places I relish, enticed and drawn towards them in obscure settings, often by a sense of intrigue, where you stumble on the least expected. uncover lost secrets, past history, forgotten stories and…
Arriving back home to my house in Spain, I have taken on the task of having a BIG sort out. It needed doing, let’s face it, if your stuff has been stored in boxes in…
If you were to ask me what was the proudest thing I have ever achieved it has to be, without any doubt, the writing of my first book, based on a true story of my…
Mum, why do you have so many notebooks and diaries? I am home from travelling and back at my lovely house La Gaia in Spain. I look around and feel grateful for my surroundings, but…
I always knew that one day I would write a book about the creation of Snazaroo the face painting company I developed with my husband Paul back in 1984. The time had to be right…