Bits & Bobs

Lots of stuff has been going on these past few weeks (scroll down to see it all).  I'm off to Yorkshire all of next week to teach an Arvon Foundation course with Celia Rees and Meg Rosoff.  Ought to be grand.

I keep being asked what's next after Monsters of Men.  The two big ones are things I've already discussed here on the site.  The first is a new short story in Losing It, a book for older teens about ... wait for it ... virginity.  Hot button stuff, I wager!  That's out 8 July in the UK.

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