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- More Worst Class and this time it’s TOTAL MAYHEM! May 24, 2023
- A Calamity of Mannerings heading your way February 10, 2023
- Come on, Carnegie! November 7, 2022
- The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings (and other film stars) July 7, 2022
- Time to get Radical May 3, 2022
- World Book Day is going to be LITERALLY brilliant! September 22, 2021
- An adventure in No Man’s Land September 2, 2021
- Sneak peek of No Man’s Land August 25, 2021
- Welcome to Essex March 4, 2021
- Sneak read of The Talk of Pram Town March 3, 2021
- The real Pram Town February 23, 2021
- Welcome to Pram Town February 19, 2021
- Sign for our bookshops… (free swag!) November 5, 2020
- The Best Class in the World… sends letters October 19, 2020
- Sense and Sensibility (with bells on) October 1, 2020
- Welcome to 4b: The Worst Class in the World May 14, 2020
- The BEST (Deputy) Headteacher in the World May 13, 2020
- A Penny (Dreadful) a day… March 19, 2020
- ‘Hull, Nadin!’ December 3, 2019
- And another one… November 26, 2019
- All cheer for Alan November 25, 2019
- Head in all the books June 26, 2019
- Book Group Questions for Queen of Bloody Everything January 18, 2019
- My BAFTA-Winning Boy November 26, 2018
- Here’s One I Made Earlier November 4, 2018
- We are BAFTA-nominated… and breathe October 22, 2018
- (Pigeon) seeds of a story July 12, 2018
- Birdy Jones is all alone May 26, 2018
- BAFTA, baby! April 15, 2018
- CBBC’s Joe All Alone and the truth about child poverty April 2, 2018
- Bid on Bloody Everything March 19, 2018
- Joe All Alone at BAFTA March 15, 2018
- The Queen of Bloody Everything is born February 8, 2018
- A face for radio January 31, 2018
- The Queen of Bloody Everything (including the Indy’s and Red’s Top 10) January 3, 2018
- Joe in the post December 4, 2017
- The Carnegie Feeling November 6, 2017
- First lines and first chapters November 1, 2017
- Stay gold, Ponyboy September 14, 2017
- The making of a mixtape… September 12, 2017
- Want to write middle grade? August 4, 2017
- Everybody Hurts – a story of love (and ping pong) August 3, 2017
- Joe All Alone on CBBC July 30, 2017
- Home alone? October 11, 2015
- A is for Apiphobia. June 1, 2015
- Hello May Hitlist May 13, 2015
- Home alone May 4, 2015
- Countdown to 7 May April 27, 2015
- Reading is where the wild things are April 15, 2015
- Undertow August 7, 2014
- Blowing my own trumpet July 11, 2014
- Eden June 30, 2014
- Rachel says… March 7, 2014
- The End of an Era March 6, 2014
- (Almost) The Time of My Life March 5, 2014
- Wonderland February 1, 2014
- Undertow January 31, 2014
- Eden January 30, 2014
- And Then I Kissed Him… January 3, 2014
- Boys. And books. And boys in books. July 4, 2013
- The ten signs of ageing June 18, 2013
- Funny girl May 2, 2013
- Trapped wind (or is it a novel?) March 28, 2013
- Writer’s block (or not) March 21, 2013
- Dedication’s what you need… (and a clicker, apparently) March 16, 2013
- The Life of Riley March 6, 2013
- The Lost Boys March 1, 2013
- Joanna Nadin is a Record Breaker (potentially) February 16, 2013
- Funny ha ha February 7, 2013
- Let’s hear it for the girls… January 16, 2013
- Me, Rachel Riley January 3, 2013
- Tis the season to be jolly… December 16, 2012
- The shovel list. November 16, 2012
- The Next Big Thing… November 14, 2012
- Frank October 17, 2012
- Books are where the wild things are… September 7, 2012
- Build it up, build it up, build it high… September 2, 2012
- That’s Not My Mother August 15, 2012
- Little White (Ham) Lies July 4, 2012
- Bonnie Scotland June 21, 2012
- The Greatest Show on Earth June 12, 2012
- Here comes (more) trouble June 1, 2012
- ‘Cheekbones like geometry…’ May 14, 2012
- When John Hughes closes a door… March 9, 2012
- These books will save your life February 13, 2012
- Back to the start… January 10, 2012
- Irresolutions December 31, 2011
- When I grow up… December 5, 2011
- The ten signs of ageing November 15, 2011
- Funny Girl(s) November 8, 2011
- Big Bath Blog Story October 12, 2011
- Teenage Wasteland October 10, 2011
- Peopling Paradise September 20, 2011
- Funny girl September 17, 2011
- A face for radio September 4, 2011
- Book club blues… August 22, 2011
- There’s no place like…. July 2, 2011
- I AM Buttercup Jones (and Lola, and quite a few other characters too) June 8, 2011
- Buttercup Jones meet the World June 2, 2011
- Penny Dreadful is unleashed June 1, 2011
- Making Hay (and the sun had better shine) May 31, 2011
- Richard and Judy May 26, 2011
- Buttercup 2: Return of the crazy May 24, 2011
- Officially me May 17, 2011
- Bad hair day May 15, 2011
- The pursuit of love May 1, 2011
- 25 random facts about me May 1, 2011
- Playing Games May 1, 2011
- Reality Bites May 1, 2011
- Breakin’ the law May 1, 2011
- Obesity May 1, 2011
- Sex education May 1, 2011
- How does a chicken? May 1, 2011
- Everyone’s a winner, baby May 1, 2011
- Something rotten in Dorset May 1, 2011
- Boys boys boys May 1, 2011
- High School Monsterical May 1, 2011
- Remember remember May 1, 2011
- White (lie) Christmas May 1, 2011
- Christmas presence May 1, 2011
- Twit(ter) May 1, 2011
- Dream big May 1, 2011
- Easy A April 19, 2011
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