Tag Archives: Usborne

Dedication’s what you need… (and a clicker, apparently)

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Joanna Nadin

So, got up, ate porridge, corralled angry small menace into school uniform (disappointment at having to go to school dressed as schoolgirl, not Katherine Parr, due to Ofsted swooping in and causing cancellation of World Book Day), set new world … Continue reading →

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Joanna Nadin is a Record Breaker (potentially)

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Joanna Nadin

I have never been a high achiever. Until I started writing (thanks to Penny Dreadful, Solomon Smee and Maisie Morris), the only two things I had won were a Toners hair dye from Jackie magazine in 1982 and the umbrella … Continue reading →

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That’s Not My Mother

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Joanna Nadin

Something odd happens in the summer. Something I feel uneasy about. Something that, come July, I am really not sure I can cope with, yet somehow, by around this time in August, I have managed to drag myself through (albeit … Continue reading →

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