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MY AUTHOR BLOG
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About the author
Once upon a time:
I was born in 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire.
I lived not far from Fleet as a child.
Brothers and sisters:
Two sisters, one brother.
I'm the youngest.
Pets:
As a child: two dogs, a cat, a budgerigar, a guinea pig,
two hamsters and quite a lot of mice. And a stick insect
but I don't talk about him.. He came to a sad end.
School &c:
Queen's Road Primary (Farnborough); Aldershot County High;
National Cathedral School (Washington DC) ; Wycombe Abbey.
Somerville College, Oxford (philosophy, politics & economics);
MIT for a year (philosophy)
As a child I was good at:
Pretending.
Reading.
Escaping.
I used to HATE:
Beetroot and celery.
School dinners.
Being told off.
Being laughed at.
Being left out.
Early ambitions:
To be as clever as my sisters.
To be a hairdresser.
To be a hermit.
To be Biggles.
To be a poet.
Jobs :
Author and editor (both fun).
I edit the revised edition of
the Wainwright walking guides.
Some things I LOVE:
Drawing (anything).
Thinking. Imagining.
Writing. Hoping.
Great stories.
What I'm working
on at the moment:
I've just written a picture book story calledTroll Wood. I'm mulling over
a follow-up to Similon about the renegade Chief Wizard Lazarus Logios who cheats death. Plus
several ideas so hush-hush even
I don't know about them yet.
Family:
I have three grown-up children and five grandchildren.
Home:
Hampstead, north London
