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The Adventures of Mademoiselle Charlotte by Dominique Demers, illustrated by Tony Ross 9781846884610 £20.97 Mademoiselle Charlotte is a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that make her look like a scarecrow, and she talks to a rock. In the first story in the series, Mademoiselle Charlotte is THE NEW TEACHER. Children think she is crazy at first, but soon realize she mak…
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To celebrate the release of Where to Find Me, we caught up with Alba Arikha… What led you into writing? My love of books. I read a lot as a child, and books were my ultimate refuge. I dabbled in poetry and short stories (in French) before I switched to English and never looked back. What was your earliest career aspiration? Aside from writing, I played the piano. I thought I might become a concert…
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Cry to Dream AgainJane Hawking£9.99 NOW £4.99 In the run up to the publication of Cry to Dream Again this month, Nudge Books’s Erin Britton interviewed Jane Hawking – the number-one bestselling author of Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything – who has kindly given us permission to reproduce the interview here. 50% off – now only £4.99 Offer valid July 2018 only Aut…
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Can you tell us about the inspiration behind Call Me Zebra? I started working on the novel in 2010, when I received a Fulbright Fellowship to Barcelona to study the work of the 20th Century Catalan writer Josep Pla. I had lived in a remote town on the coast of Valencia as a child and then again as a teenager; my family had settled there immediately after leaving Iran as a result of the 1979 Revolu…
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The first two books in Dominique Demers’s popular Adventure of Miss Charlotte series: The New Teacher and The Mysterious Librarian Brilliantly illustrated by Tony Ross, these are entertaining, imaginative and inspiring books – you won’t be able to finish The New Teacher without wishing you had a teacher just like Miss Charlotte, and The Mysterious Librarian is a wonderful story about the ma…
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Competition closed Belle and Sébastien Cécile Aubry Illustrated by Helen Stephens Translated by Gregory Norminton The son of a gypsy woman, Sébastien is found as a newborn baby in the Alps and brought up by César and his grandchildren Angélina and Jean. Born on the same day, Belle is a beautiful white Pyrenean Mountain Dog who has been neglected and passed on from owner to owner, until one day she…
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To celebrate the release of Jack Fortune and the Search for the Hidden Valley, we caught up with Sue Purkiss to find out a little about what went on behind the scenes… Q. How old were you when you first started writing? My first book was published in 2003, when I was 52. I’ve written bits and pieces ever since I was a child, but I didn’t ever think I could be a “proper” writer until I did a…
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To celebrate the release of The Porridge plot, we caught up with Che Golden to find out a little about what went on behind the scenes… Q. How old were you when you first started writing? I was quite young – about six, I think. My first book was called The Book of Things, and I basically drew and described all my favourite things and made a little book out of them. Q. What was the inspiratio…
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To celebrate Mary Wollstonecraft’s birthday, we caught up with Bee Rowlatt, author of In Search of Mary. 1) When was the first time you heard about Mary Wollstonecraft? I first read her Scandinavian Travels when I was a literature student, before I knew anything about her astonishing political and philosophical legacy. The image of her writing a travelogue whilst at sea on a treasure hunt, with a…
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