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Although I have written throughout my life, starting as a small child with stories about dogs and ponies, I left fiction behind as an adult

The first book I remember reading Among my earliest memories were the regular visits to the library at the bottom of our street in Brighton.

Losing It is your second title to be published by Victorina Press – however they are two very different books. The Marsh People is dystopian

At around 4am, on April 11th 2011, unable to sleep, tossing and turning in bed, I got up, put the kettle on and grabbed an

The first book I remember reading  Noddy and the Magic Boots. I had no interest in Noddy as a small child until he left behind

I grew up in Gaza in a crowded house, with ten people including my parents, at the heart of the Jabalia Camp. We barely had

I know you are interested in a wide range of historical literature, particularly Victorian Gothic. So it was probably a certainty that your first novel

The first book I remember reading One of the earliest books I remember reading as a bedtime story was about a fairy with a flower-petal

The first book I remember reading     Grimms Fairy Tales – an old copy, printed in about 1959. I’ve still got it. Very scary,

The first book I remember reading I was able to read before I went to my kindergarten in the Sudan. I don’t know what books

Interview with Judith Amanthis At the heart of Dirt Clean there is the brilliant and inventive story of a long-term quarrel between two sisters. Where