August 15, 2020
August 15, 2020
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Last week ABC National Radio ran an interview I did a few years ago with the wonderful Richard Fidler. I always get masses of messages and emails afterwards, many querying me about some aspect of the fascinating history of fairy tales [...]
July 26, 2020
July 26, 2020
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One of my all-time favourite children’s authors is Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of ‘The Secret Garden’ and ‘A Little Princess’. She was born on 24 […]
July 13, 2020
July 13, 2020
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June 17, 2020
June 17, 2020
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I have been watching & listening to the anger & anguish of the #BLM movement these past few weeks, with tears burning my eyes and a […]
April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020
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On the 12th July 2018, at five o’clock in the evening, I wrote in my journal: “I’ve been thinking for a while about writing a […]
April 28, 2020
April 28, 2020
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‘May Day Celebration’ An extract from Dragonclaw, Kate’s first published book (The Witches of Eileanan: Book 1) One night they cantered up a steep incline […]
February 25, 2020
February 25, 2020
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Once upon a time there were two brothers who lived in a small kingdom in the middle of a crazy patchwork of other small kingdoms, each […]
February 25, 2020
February 25, 2020
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One of the problems of writing historical fiction which draws on the lives of real people is that, well, they’re real people. And if you are […]
February 23, 2020
February 23, 2020
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Writing Lessons I Learned From Charles Dickens Research deeply, and read only ‘books (that have) the air of the time in them.’ Plan slowly & carefully […]