Have you read One Day In Oradour with your class? Have you made the novel one of your book club reads? Have you come across it on BookTok? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you … Read More
Thank you to all 289 members of the online book community Goodreads who entered the Giveaway Competition on my author page to win a free signed copy of One Day In Oradour. I am delighted to announce that the three … Read More
It felt kind of appropriate that the weather was damp and grey for my latest visit to the Memorial Village at Oradour-sur-Glane. Sometimes, when the sun is shining, the sadness of this strange, ghost village’s wartime past is more difficult … Read More
I was Brighton bound on Friday, heading towards the stormy South coast for the Southern Schools Book Awards Ceremony. I hadn’t been to Brighton since my university days, when I spent a day there with a Bristol University housemate who lived not … Read More
Congratulations to Tony Riches @tonyriches on winning the One Day In Oradour Remembrance Day 2014 audio book competition. Tony has won a free copy of the One Day In Oradour audio book, narrated by Jean Brassard (The Fault In Our Stars) and available through Audible. If … Read More
I am over the moon to hear that my debut novel, One Day In Oradour, is to be given an Extraordinary Award in the 2014 Southern Schools Book Awards – and it gives me great pleasure to hear that the book … Read More
Next Tuesday, 10th June, is the 70th anniversary of the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane. I am sad not to be able to travel to France for the anniversary to be able to pay my respects but the village shall be very … Read More
It was a pleasure to be invited to spend World Book Day 2014 at St Albans High School for Girls, where I ran four workshops with Year 8 pupils linked to my novel One Day In Oradour. Together we explored … Read More
There appears to be a new chapter in my story One Day In Oradour. The people of Oradour-sur-Glane may yet get some justice. At the end of 2011, the German police raided the homes of six men, all in their … Read More
December has been a good month so far. During the first week I visited Stratford-upon-Avon School twice for two lively historical fiction workshops with students in the Green Group in Year 8. Together we discussed the kinds of books which … Read More