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Q: What are you afraid of?
Fear.
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
Yesterday - at myself.
Q: What is your most treasured possession?
My three children.
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Oranges and limes, onions and garlic, tomatoes and marmite.
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
An Olympic high diving painter.
Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
Mervyn Peake.
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Kindness.
Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
The Amazon, Africa, The Yeman, Italy, India.
Q: What is your favourite word?
Ghinchie
Q: What do you do as a hobby?
I like thinking in big spaces.
Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Be yourself.
Q: What has life taught you?
To be questioning.
Q: How long have you been a writer?
24 years.
Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?
No, but I started to write when my mother died.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
In a shed at the bottom of the garden.
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
Being able to choose what you write about and not always succeeding.
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
From my imagination - and what happens to me.
Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?
Write something else.
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
Fairy stories from around the world.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Work very hard. Don't give up.
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Bare Bear
ISBN
0340882034
Published By
Hodder
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In Print -
Bedtime, Billy Bear!
ISBN
9780230014640
Published By
Macmillan
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In Print -
Bad Hair Day
ISBN
0747564825
Published By
Bloomsbury
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In Print -
The Best Dog in the World
ISBN
0-333-96230-3
Published By
Macmillan
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In Print -
Billy Bear and the New Baby
ISBN
978-0-230-5401-53155
Published By
Macmillan
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In Print -
Come Back Soon
ISBN
0-340-85415-4
Published By
Hodder
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In Print -
This is the Reef
ISBN
9781845076597
Published By
Frances Lincoln
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In Print -
The Horse Girl
ISBN
0-7112-1877-3
Published By
Frances Lincoln
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In Print -
I FORGOT TO SAY I LOVE YOU
ISBN
0-333-97234-1
Published By
Macmillan
Status
In Print -
THIS IS THE OASIS
ISBN
978-1-84507-572-9
Published By
Frances Lincoln
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In Print -
Arctic Song
ISBN
978-0816760695
Published By
Troll Communications
Status
In Print -
This Is the Tree
ISBN
978-0711214910
Published By
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
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In Print -
Wibble Wobble
ISBN
978-1589250130
Published By
Orchard
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In Print -
Snow Bear
ISBN
B0007D9VFK
Published By
templar
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In Print -
The Snoops
ISBN
978-0525459729
Published By
Dutton Books
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In Print -
Matty takes Off
ISBN
9781842707012
Published By
Andersen
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In Print -
Matty in a Mess
ISBN
9781842708125
Published By
Andersen
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In Print -
This is the Mountain
ISBN
9781845079840
Published By
Frances Lincoln
Status
In Print
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