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Itâs been a whileâŚ
âŚsince I posted anything here. Writing life had continued to be quiet as the effects of the pandemic unwound themselves in schools and libraries. Iâm delighted to be out and about again now though doing events, and even more delighted to show off my new book, hot off the presses today! From Cells To Ourselves tells the story of evolution, something Iâve wanted to write about for a long time.âŚ
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Good News X 2!
Good News XÂ 2!
Itâs always good to come home from holiday and find thereâs something to distract you from the pile of washing, but itâs usually something very minor. Not this time⌠Iâve come home to news of listings for not one, but two book awards! From Shore to Ocean Floor, illustrated by the wonderful Christopher Nielsen and published by Big Picture Press, has been longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards. IâmâŚ
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Teen Queen - Just Imagine...
Teen Queen â Just ImagineâŚ
A very belated welcome to my latest book, The Amazing Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. (My laptop has been in computer hospital and Iâm too useless to do things like this on my phone.) She did indeed have an amazing life: Queen of Scots at six days old, married to the heir to the French throne at fifteen, Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at seventeen, returned to rule Scotland at eighteen, forcedâŚ
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Dive Right In...
Dive Right InâŚ
September has been a vintage month: not one, but two books hitting the shelves. Today Iâm celebrating the publication of From Shore to Ocean Floor, another gorgeous title from Big Picture Press, illustrated by Christopher Nielsen. We know more about the surface of Mars then we do about Earthâs oceans. Whatâs really down there, and how did we find out? Dive in to find out about shipwrecks,âŚ
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Happy Publication Day!
I want to introduce you all to my latest ink-and-paper offspring: Microbe Wars. This is a book Iâve wanted to write for some time, and in June 2020 Templar Books decided that they would like to publish it. Itâs been a whirlwind of writing, editing, design and illustration since then, and Iâm immensely proud of the result. It takes a lot of people to turn an idea into a finished book and Iâve beenâŚ
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Best Review Ever - The Real One!
Best Review Ever â The Real One!
You may be thinking âIâve already seen this postâ, but donât go â this is an entirely different sort of âbest review everâ, sent to me by an 8 year old reader in the USAâŚ
âMy dad bought your science books for me when I was 4 â The Beginnerâs Guide to Periodic Table, What Makes You You, What makes Your Body Work, A Beginnerâs Guide to Electricity and Magnetism and Your Guide to Life on EarthâŚ
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Dipping my toes in the virtual water I'm a bit late to the party, but I am at last engaging with the idea of online events.
The Best Review Ever?
The Best Review Ever?
I hardly ever look at my books on Amazon.com, but yesterday I did and I found the most amazing review:
âThis book appears to be targeted at young children. It has bright and cheerful pictures and advertises it is âwackyâ. Unfortunately it was not age appropriate (for any child). It contains dark and unnecessary subject matter. There is nothing âamazing and wackyâ about this book. The nonchalantâŚ
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Oh Happy Day #1 A red-letter today, on the slow road out of Covid-19 hibernation. I was able to go, in person, to a bookshop, an actual, physical bookshop.
Lockdown Childrenâs LitFest Just a quickie... I'm delighted to say that on Thursday 14th May at 2pm, I'm being interviewed online by Catherine Millar as part of her splendid Lockdown Children's LitFest.
Adventures in e-publishing #2
Adventures in e-publishing #2
Itâs nearly a month since I stuck my head above the parapet and put my book The Keepersâ Daughter on line as a Kindle download and POD paperback; so, what have I learned in that time?
First, I love the way I can track whatâs been happening to it. I can check how many downloads there have been per day by using the KDP website. I could check hour by hour if I wanted to, using Amazon Author CentralâŚ
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The Best Biscuits Ever
I posted a picture of these on Instagram and have been asked for the recipe. If you have a subscription to The Times you can find it on line, if not, here is a compressed version. I do hope Iâm not about to be prosecuted for breach of copyright⌠The recipe is by Rahul Mandal, of âBakeoffâ fame and the cookies taste as good as they look.
1 Cream 50g butter, 40g tahini and 90g dark brown sugar. AddâŚ
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Adventures in e-Publishing I am well known for my technomuppetry, so it was with major trepidation that I embarked on an attempt to publish my novelâŚ
Our Microbe Friends #6 Miracle Mould
In 1939 the search was on for chemicals that could treat bacterial infections â a really serious issue with war looming. In Oxford Howard Florey and Ernst Chain came across Flemingâs work and started to look at penicillin. They infected mice with pneumonia and injected half of them with penicillin. The next day all the injected mice were fine, and all the others were dead. Chain rightly describedâŚ
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Our Microbe Friends #5 Miracle Mould!
Moulds are a group of fungi. Theyâre very important in the process of decay, and they also create the âveinsâ in blue cheeses like Stilton. But there are a few that do something far more important than giving us something tasty to put on biscuitsâŚ
In 1928 Professor Alexander Fleming went on holiday (something you could still do, back thenâŚ). He was working on the bacteria that cause sore throats,âŚ
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Our Microbe Friends #4: Fabulous Fungi
Fungi are a strange and wonderful group of organisms. Theyâre not animals OR plants: they have a whole Kingdom to themselves. And not all of them are microbes â thatâs obvious, if youâve ever eaten a mushroom: you didnât need a microscope to find it on your plate. So, what are they?
If you see a mushroom growing in the ground, you are only seeing the reproductive bit of the fungus. The rest isâŚ
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Our Microbe Friends #3: The Wonders of Compost
Still talking rot tonight⌠Did you realise that if you have a compost heap in your garden, or if you put food waste out for recycling, you are enlisting an army of trillions of microbes to help you?
Making compost is like magic â but itâs just biology (mind you, I find biology pretty magical). Iâve just chucked an apple core on my compost heap; whatâs going to happen to it?
First, the local catsâŚ
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