Welcome to my blog. This is the place for news about my books, accounts of my travels and anything else interesting that happens to me. Also cats.
16 May 2025
In May, Adam and I popped off for a quick visit to France via Eurostar. The theme was to visit gardens.
Our first day was spent at Versailles. I really wanted to visit Le Petit Trianon, which was given by Louis XIV to Marie Antoinette so that she could relax away from the formality of the French Cou...
3 Apr 2025
It was very soon after the India trip, but i really wanted to see the cherry blossom in Japan, so off I went.
We began in Tokyo, where we viewed the Imperial Palace from a respectful distance, then viewed the city from the top of Tokyo tower, and visited the Asakusa Sensoji temple, which dates from ...
16 Feb 2025
This year I revisited India, this time with my son Adam. We began in Delhi, with a visit to the memorial for Mahatma Ghandi, and a terrifying rickshaw rode through the streets of the old city.
Jaipur was next - one of my favourite Indian cities. The Amber Fort is superb, with magnificent views over ...
19 Oct 2024
In October I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair to be Erin Hunter, and promote the Warrior Cats books.
I love these events. The Frankfurt conference hall is vast, crammed with the stands of publishers and booksellers, and also crammed with people who are all having a blast because they love books.
Every ...
1 Oct 2024
Adam and I have had an amazing adventure: flying to Santiago in Chile, and then to Easter Island, or as the inhabitants call it, Rapa Nui.
While we were on the mainland, we visited Valparaiso, which is a delightful city, very interested and quirky. We saw Pablo Neruda's house, filled with fascinating...