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Next 'events' course dates
Booking is now open for our eight-week online course for children's writers and illustrators: Delivering Events with Confidence. This is for authors and illustrators who need to improve their confidence when talking to a variety of audiences . . . and pinpoints all the components that contribute to a smooth-running and successful event – virtually or in-person, to a handful of fans or a jam-packed auditorium. The next start dates...
A model for others to emulate
Part memoir, part history, part travelogue, WHY THE GERMANS DO IT BETTER by John Kampfner is a rich and witty portrait of an eternally fascinating country. It's out today in paperback with Atlantic Books. Emerging from a collection of city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosperity in such a short time frame. Today, as much of the world...
Return to Spinalonga
MARIA'S ISLAND is out today in hardback from Walker Books. This is the absorbing story of the Cretan village of Plaka and the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga – Greece's former leper colony – told to us by Maria Petrakis, one of the children in the original version of Victoria Hislop's THE ISLAND. It is illustrated by Gill Smith.
