What a delight to visit this gorgeous independent bookshop in Chapel-en-le-Frith the other day! “Reading Matters” had long been on my list of places to go and had been recommended to me recently by several ladies at the High Peak Luncheon Club. It was wonderful to meet the owners, Lyndsay and Sue, and to witness their enthusiasm for books and for my own three titles too. They are now stocking all three: Alfie’s Story, Fearless Flynn and Arkwright the Duck.
I’m so delighted that Lisa, one of the girls I met at Castle Hill in Bakewell years ago, now has her own florist shop called Rebecca Florist in Liskeard, Cornwall. Lisa has just agreed to sell my books and soft toys and is therefore my only stockist in Cornwall. Hope that if you’re ever in…
Arkwright the duck has been away on his travels – I think he calls it his “migration”. I didn’t know ducks migrated, did you? Anyway, he’s not been around for over a year and has just returned from the other side of the world. He’s delighted to be back and so are we! …because you can now…
Wednesday, 8th February found me spending a delightful evening speaking to the ladies of Starkholmes WI. They were interested to hear how I became a writer of children’s picture books and were keen for me to read “Alfie’s Story” to them. They must have enjoyed the evening, as I made several sales of “Alfie’s Story”,…
We were recently at this lovely little craft fair at Heaton Fold garden centre in Bolton when Laurence came in from the car park to buy some sausages for tea. However, when he saw our books, he decided to spend his money on an illustrated children’s storybook for his little boy. So he bought Arkwright…
I was recently surprised to receive an email from Australia. Turns out that a very lovely grandmother who lives over there was on holiday in the UK last year and bought “Alfie’s Story” and an Alfie soft toy cat to go with it. Back in Oz, she gave them both to her grandson, Finn. What…
I’ve just learned that Wirksworth is about to hold its own Hay-on-Wye book festival. They are calling it the Big Book Day and it is being held on Saturday, 8 April. It’ll be the culmination of a series of story and book events held across the town during the previous week. It’s going to be…
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