Archive for November, 2006

Staffordshire

[ Thursday, 15, March 2007; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ]

    I’ll be visiting Staffordshire on 15th March 2007.   More details soon.

The Stuff of Nightmares

My next book is called The Stuff of Nightmares and it will be published next year. It’s a horror story for young adults.  I guess it was inspired by my own nightmares.  Whenever things are going wrong in my life, my brain tries to sort things out by making me live through very vivid, not terribly [...]

Unheard Voices

Next year, 2007, marks the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Trade Act, banning British sea captains from profiting from the slave trade. Although it didn’t eliminate the slave trade immediately, it was an important first step. To commemorate the anniversary, I have selected a number of stories and poems about slavery and its legacy and [...]

An Eye For An Eye

My World Book Day title – An Eye For An Eye – is no longer available, but as we’ve had so many requests for it, my publishers have issued a new edition of Noughts and Crosses. The new edition contains An Eye For An Eye at the back of it. An Eye For An Eye [...]

Checkmate in paperback

Checkmate is out in paperback, available for the very reasonable price of £6.99!  Checkmate is the third part of the Noughts and Crosses trilogy.  The entire trilogy (including An Eye For An Eye which is available at the back of the new edition of Noughts and Crosses) is now out in paperback in the UK.