Personal stories

Positively Teenage becomes real – and breaks a machine

Last week, I did something I’ve never had the chance to do: I watched one of my books being printed. My 100th title, Positively Teenage!

The celebrification of children’s literature is not new but it reached what my mother-in-law used to call a “peak low” with the list of books

I was so thrilled to get the news from Walker Books that the Reading Agency has reported huge extra library borrowings of the 35 books on

This is a bit of a strange one. Back in 2015, my younger daughter, Rebecca, and a friend, Caroline Bartleet, who were working for a

I’m doing a Diploma in Youth Counselling and very interesting it is, too. I’m not planning to be a counsellor but I’m often approached by teenagers

Factual books don’t get many chances to win awards so I was thrilled when The Teenage Guide to Stress was shortlisted for the fabulous School