A character comes to life…
Last week I was back in Cobh, County Cork, one of the settings for Hello from the Gillespies. Today, I’m delighted to share photos of not just another setting, but…
Read MoreAn Evening in Cobh
My warmest thanks to everyone who came along to Cobh Library in County Cork on Friday night for my Culture Night talk about Hello from the Gillespies. It was so…
Read MoreHello from the Gillespies in Australia’s Top 100 Books
I’m delighted to see Hello from the Gillespies listed among Australia’s Top 100 Books, as voted by book lovers in the Better Reading poll announced this week. Thank you all so much…
Read MoreIndigenous Literacy Day
Happy Indigenous Literacy Day to all of you in Australia. Putting books into the hands of families in remote communities, running story writing workshops, and publishing the stories of young…
Read MoreA surprise around the world…
My big thanks to Helen Treloar-Jacobson for sending me this photo and message – it’s so great to see it from the other side of the world. “Look what I…
Read MoreHello to a new Hello from the Gillespies
A treat in the post: my first copies of the new Australian edition of Hello from the Gillespies have just arrived. I love this new cover – I can almost…
Read MoreHappy Middle Child’s Day
Warm greetings to any fellow middle children (I’m the middle of seven) who know how it feels to occupy that important/overlooked/ignored position in the family. I’d be celebrating but no…
Read MoreA quizzical question from my Mum
My Mum emailed from South Australia yesterday to ask if I could help her with the answer to question 12 in the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper’s daily quiz. “Who wrote the…
Read MoreA return to County Mayo
I’m just back from a few days in County Mayo in the beautiful west of Ireland, one of the settings for Hello from the Gillespies. This time last year I…
Read MoreBook bags and bookish stories
Is there such a thing as too many book bags? (No.) Especially when each one comes with its own story. The bag from the Hobart Bookshop in Tasmania? I was living in…
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