I am totally delighted that I, ADA was chosen as the Children’s Book of the Week by Alex O’Connell in The Times. Read the article here [paywall] or pasted below: It’s been a bad week for the algorithm, with its blunt treatment of teachers’ exam assessments. Thankfully, this imaginatively told story of the British… Read more »
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New EP: Songs for Nora Tobias
Something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time is to record music to go with a book of mine, and I am very happy to say that LITTLE LIAR will have an EP to go with it called SONGS FOR NORA TOBIAS.* I wrote the music over the last six months, once the… Read more »
New Novel and Cover Reveal….
Hurray! I’ve written a new book called Little Liar. It’s coming out in June 2018 and will be published by Andersen Press, for ages 14 and up. Little Liar is all about acting, lying, memory, love and friendship. It has a narrator as morally complex as Hobie Duvalle, from The Otherlife. Her name is Nora,… Read more »
Branford Boase
I’m very happy to say that The Otherlife has been longlisted for the Branford Boase award, a prize for first-time children’s novelists and their editors. The lovely and brilliant Chloe Sackur edited The Otherlife – under her guidance I found the process of rewriting and editing a transformative and very valuable experience. The shortlist will… Read more »
The Otherlife has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal
Thank you very much to CILIP for the nomination – it means a great deal, and I am delighted to be among so many wonderful books and authors. The full list of nominations can be found here. The longlist will be published in February 2017.
The Otherlife Blog Tour
Here’s something totally thrilling: a blog tour! Once upon a time I did not know what a blog tour was; now I get to have one of my very own… seven lovely bloggers are hosting seven posts (by me) over seven days, covering all sorts of things from literary tutors to things I learned when… Read more »
Metallica cover to celebrate The Otherlife
Every artist must have a to-be-covered list, and on mine there has always been a song by Metallica. When the band that I was a part of, Second Person, was playing a residency at Pizza on the Park (very fancy), we sometimes used to play a bit of ‘My Friend of Misery’ as an outro… Read more »
The Otherlife is published!
Heres a lovely review from Amanda Craig, talking to Georgina Godwin on Monocle Radio. I’m in excellent company with AS Byatt and Kate Saunders. I’m also really happy that The Otherlife is Debut of the Month at Lovereading4kids.co.uk It’s available at branches of Daunt Books, Waterstones, independent booksellers and Amazon. Happy reading!
Preorder The Otherlife
The Otherlife comes out on the 7th July! But you can preorder it now from Amazon and Waterstones, or ask your local bookshop to order it for you…
The Otherlife – Literary Review, June 2016
The Otherlife has been reviewed (very kindly!) by Philip Womack in the June edition of the Literary Review… June 2016 Children’s Round-up
Interview for the Birkbeck Published Alumni Series
It was a huge pleasure to do an interview with Melanie Jones for the Birkbeck Published Alumni Series. I discuss the themes behind The Otherlife and the writing process; the things I found difficult and the things I enjoyed, and how the Birkbeck experience helped me on my way. Interview here – and there’s also… Read more »
The Otherlife
I’ve written a book. It’s a book about Norse myths, and heavy metal, and school. It’s a book about the growing friendship between two boys: one charming, self-centred and ruthless, who has everything he’s ever wanted; the other is silent and secretive and wrapped in visions of a mysterious alternate realm he calls ‘The Otherlife’…. Read more »