July 28, 2021
July 28, 2021
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Pan MacMillan Speech The last time I was here was to talk to you about ‘The Gypsy Crown’ and the Chain of Charms series, which […]
July 26, 2021
July 26, 2021
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My Fairy Tale Fascination I was enchanted with the Grimm Brothers’ fairy-tales from the moment I read them as a little girl, sick and lonely in […]
July 24, 2021
July 24, 2021
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INTERVIEW WITH JANE YOLEN Jane Yolen is one of my favourite children’s authors. She moves easily between wonderful picture books like Owl Moon and How […]
July 22, 2021
July 22, 2021
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I have written books set in Kent during the time of Charles II and Oliver Cromwell (The Gypsy Crown); set in Scotland during the tumultuous reign of Mary, Queen of Scots (The Puzzle Ring); in Renaissance Venice and Versailles in the time of the Sun King (Bitter Greens); in Germany during the Napoleonic wars
June 1, 2021
June 1, 2021
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When my sister Belinda and I wrote Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia’s First Children’s Author, we originally planned a chapter in which we […]
May 25, 2021
May 25, 2021
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I used to love reading time travel adventures when I was a child. They were one of my favourite genres of fiction, and I’ve always wanted to write one. When I first began daydreaming about the story that would become ‘The Puzzle Ring’,
May 12, 2021
May 12, 2021
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We all know that we inherit the colour of our eyes from our parents. If you sneeze when you look at the sun, that too was passed down through your genes. So was your ability to curl your tongue, and when you are likely to notice that first grey hair.
February 7, 2021
February 7, 2021
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The primary character in my novel Bitter Greens is the scandalous 17th century writer, Charlotte-Rose de la Force, who wrote the version of the Rapunzel fairytale that we know best [...]
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 [...]