About me

I love stories. I’ve loved reading them since I was young. I loved reading Roald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World, I loved The Three Investigators mysteries, I loved E. Nesbitt’s The Phoenix and the Carpet and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. And Emil and the Detectives and Finn Family Moomintroll and so many more!

Later I grew to love Eva Ibbotsen and Elizabeth Enright and Lemony Snicket. I read them to my kids. They loved them too.

I also love making up stories. I tell them to my kids, to friends, to anyone who’ll listen.

And I love writing them down.

I write lots of things. I have written plays and films and television programmes. I like turning old stories into plays. I did that with Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and the Robin Hood story which I wrote for the theatre as The Heart of Robin Hood.

And I love writing stories for you to read.

Krasnia is a land of bookshops and libraries. Charles Malstain tried to close them all but he did not succeed. Whenever anyone tries to stop a book being read, you should try harder to read it. There’s a reason why it’s so important.

So enjoy the bookshop and read, read, read. It’s the one world which is entirely yours.