Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 8
January 4, 2019
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019 TO ALL OUR FANS!
After a relaxing (sometimes tiring!) Christmas and New Year holiday, we are really keen to get back into schools to do what we do best, promote a love of reading…especially our very own creepy, action-packed stories! It should be a VERY exciting year ahead with my new book to be published around September, and a wonderful new academy trust […]
December 19, 2018
THE CHARM OF YARM
We finished off our term by travelling up to one of our favourite places to stay – especially at Christmas! Yarm, near Stockton, in the NE, is a market town full of period charm with it’s cobbled High Street and narrow alleyways leading off (Wynds); some down to the riverside – all very Christmassy at […]
November 28, 2018
WONDERFUL WHITLEY BAY
A very busy week ahead of us, we headed up to the NE to seek out the newly refurbished Spanish City area in non other than Whitley Bay – a haunt of some of our most favourite schools! Seaton Sluice, Valley Gardens and Whytrig…all brilliant middle schools, and a smaller primary school mid-week, St Teresa’s […]
November 19, 2018
LUVLY JUBLY!
Three ‘cracking’ schools…three fab experiences…hopefully for our audiences as much as for us! We had the best time ever with Herringthorpe Juniors, Sir Edmund Hillary Primary and Pheasant Bank Academy. Luvly Jubly! Let’s start with Herringthorpe Juniors – VERY local to the setting of the Mokee Joe books. In fact the hero of the books, Hudson […]
November 10, 2018
THANK YOU RICHARD COATES PRIMARY
I was so pleased to be handed a wad of lovely letters from fans at Richard Coates Primary School a few weeks ago. Having just got round to reading them – I’m even more pleased! A HUGE ‘thank you’ to: …Grace, Zac, Ivy, William. L, Evie, Ava, Mya, Max, Ewan, Charlie, Gabriel…and to someone who […]
November 1, 2018
VIP TREATMENT IN LUTON
Next stop, Denbigh High School – old friends of ours! Hence the VIP treatment and a parking space reserved for us on our arrival! VERY much appreciated! Over 250 Year 7’s sat for most of the morning listening to me rave on and on about our super-scary stories, and just in time for Halloween. Excellent! […]
October 31, 2018
BACK TO LUTON
You may be wondering why Kath and I spend so much time in Luton. The answer is simple: the schools there are fab and we love working in them. We work with ten Luton/Bedford schools in total now, all members of the growing (and exciting) Chiltern Trust. Our first visit was to a brand new school, […]
October 24, 2018
GEMS and JEWELS in GOSFORTH!
Days 3 and 4 of our NE visit were spent in Gosforth Central and Gosforth East middle schools respectively. These are two of our favourite schools and with good reason – there are so many pupils and they are all fans of our books! Gosforth Central gave us around 250 Year 5’s and 6’s to […]
October 16, 2018
NORTH EASTERLY MAGIC!
Our week up in the North East has got off with a ‘BANG’ to say the least! There’s no shortage of avid readers up in this area and it’s pleasing to report that most of them are reading (or have read) our books! First stop on Monday morning was Ponteland. Our host, Mr Harvey (Belsay […]
North Easterly Magic!
Our week up in the North East has got off with a ‘BANG’ to say the least! There’s no shortage of avid readers up in this area and it’s pleasing to report that most of them are reading (or have read) our books! First stop on Monday morning was Ponteland. Our host, Mr Harvey (Belsay […]
