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 [...]
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 […]