It was at the time the only exclusively children’s literary festival in the country. Shropshire Bookfest was founded in May 1999. I am currently also working on the next book and play or two but spend most of my time wrangling our very naughty – but adorable – dog, Huxley.
I am delighted to be an Associate Artist at Wilton’s. Other plays include Christmas Carol, featuring the first ever female Scrooge on the London stage, and The Child in the Snow, based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s ghost story, “The Old Nurse’s Tale” and The Wind in the Willows Wilton’s. My world premiere adaptation of John Masefield’s The Box of Delights opened at Wilton’s Music Hall in Christmas 2017, directed by Justin Audibert, designed by Tom Piper, and starring Matthew Kelly and Josefina Gabrielle. If you would like to learn how to write your own children’s book or play, why not check out my Domestika courses? Or join The Novelry, where I tutor and coach children’s fiction.
Like many writers, I also spend a lot of time teaching writing as well as doing it. In 2018, with my brother Nick, I co-founded the Paul Torday Memorial Prize for Debut Authors over 60 in collaboration with the Society of Authors, now in its fifth year. I have been a judge for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Costa Book Awards, and the British Book Awards amongst others. You can read short stories and articles by me in Winter Magic, Wisp of Wisdom, Return to Wonderland, and The Book of Hopes. It was a Children’s Book of the Year in The Times and was adapted for the stage by Barb Jungr and Sam Lane at the Little Angel Theatre. That Christmas, my fourth book for children, There May Be A Castle,was published. With the agreement of my brother and his agent and editor, I finished the book for him, and The Death of an Owlwas published in 2016 by W&N. In 2014, the sequel to T he Last Wild, The Dark Wild,came out (Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize) The third book in the series, The Wild Beyond, came out in 2015 and was shortlisted for Islington Book of the Year.Īfter my father Paul died in 2013, I found his last unfinished novel amongst his papers. That same year, I married Will Tosh, who is Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. The book has been published in 14 other countries, including the USA and China. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. My first children’s book, The Last Wildwas published in 2013 by Quercus Children’s.
Before writing books, I worked in theatre and television as a producer, helping other people tell stories. I was born in 1974 in Northumberland, which is possibly the one part of England where more animals live than people.
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