Tag: authors

  • World Book Day and School Author Visits

    Every year I get requests to visit schools for World Book Day. Every year I get requests the week before when someone realises they were meant to organise something for World Book Day! I know the same often happens to other authors too. So, I thought I’d write this a memory jogger. Next year World…

  • Why bother reading books or keeping libraries?

    I just caught the end of an interview with Michael Rosen on breakfast TV this morning. He was asked why we should bother to read books now that reading is going over to Kindles and iPads. He hesitated a moment, the same way I hesitated last week when asked for a quote by the Hereford…