Reading lists!
It is finally mid July and my children and I are looking forward to the summer break – a break from the school run, from homework, from clubs (although Anna Grace will still have ballet classes), from swimming lessons, from uniforms and from lunchboxes. We are all feeling tired and ready for a change […]
Would you like to be in my next book?
Did you choose to move abroad or did it just happen? Or was it a decision that was beyond your control? For me, it was my decision to go to Prague to work. I actively wanted to do that despite the depressing conversation I had before I left with the American teacher whose place I […]
Books for the Journey
I think for many parents, raising children is by far, THE most difficult and challenging thing a person can do. It is also one of the THE most important things we can do in life and, as many parents know, it can be THE most rewarding and wonderful thing in life. Parenting is like a […]
WANTED: Woman as crazy as I am
Just after I finished writing Bringing Up Brits, I got an idea for another book that would maybe turn into a series of books. However, I never got around to writing a book proposal or progressing my idea due to work being so busy. I run a design company called White Ochre Design Ltd and […]
The Gruffalo meets Goodnight Moon
I and my family absolutely love children’s books – our house is full to bursting with the likes of Judith Kerr, John Burningham, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and C.S Lewis. And we wouldn’t be truly alive if we didn’t ritually read and recite The Gruffalo, The Tiger who Came to Tea, Albie and the Space […]