It was fed by my teachers, by my bookaholic mum, and by my librarian grandmother. A love of reading came to me slowly, but was fierce once it arrived. When I was at school, I was the quiet kid who didn’t volunteer – the boy with the stammer, who dreaded being called on to read aloud. Writing, especially writing for young readers, is a transaction, and I’ve always been happy to interact with schools, answer questions, and be approached for feedback, but I could never have anticipated the warmth of the response to my writing in classrooms. From the moment Malamander was published – back in the dim, distant pre-COVID days of 2019 – the book has been embraced as a class read, and I have been touched and delighted by the responses from children, and all the creative work that has been done and shared with me on social media. It’s peopled with lots of unusual characters and quirky places, while Herbie is a reluctant hero with a mysterious history of his own to be discovered – luckily, there are more books to come in this addictive new series.I am writing to thank you for all your support for my ‘Eerie-on-Sea’ books. Supernatural elements and a steampunk feel combine to make this a fun, mystery-filled adventure with lots of spine-tingling twists and turns. And on top of this, things keep pointing them towards the terrifying legend of the malamander, an infamous local sea monster which Herbert would really rather stayed a legend… Following the clues quickly leads Herbert into far more danger than he’d like, opening up a whole lot of questions about the town’s extremely eclectic mix of residents and the secrets they’re hiding. Left in the hotel as a baby after her parents mysteriously disappeared, Violet is determined to find out what happened to them and wants Herbert’s help. But his newest ‘lost’ item is rather different: an enigmatic girl called Violet Parma. The hotel’s ‘lost and founder’, he’s tasked with cataloguing lost things and trying to find their owners. Twelve-year-old Herbert Lemon lives and works in the Grand Nautilus Hotel in the strange and frequently foggy seaside town of Eerie-on-Sea.
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