• Old books for young kids

    18 May 2024

    Nice to see Cirque Du Freak make a list of "old" series on Gamespot entitled: Introduce Your Kids To Some Of The Most Popular Books From Your Childhood This Summer -- even though I still find it...

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  • Newstalk - favourite books

    16 May 2024

    I appeared on The Hard Shoulder, a show on Irish radio station NEWSTALK, earlier this week. I talked about two of my favourite books -- longtime fans of mine probably won't be too suprised by my...

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  • Buzzfeed - books that people want to read again for the first time

    15 May 2024

    There was a nice little article on Buzzfeed recently, about people's favourite books, although it had a rather cumbersome heading: Here Are 15 Books That Are So Good, People Wish They Could Relive...

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  • Cirque Du choo-choo!!!

    13 May 2024

    A mother of a student went to his school recently, and was impressed to spot a "literary Tube map" -- this is like the famous London Tube Map, only every "train line" represents a genre of books,...

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  • Midsummer’s Bottom Mother’s Day sale

    10 May 2024

    To tie in with a Kobo Mother's Day sale in the USA, I've reduced the price of the eBook of my Darren Dash novel, Midsummer's Bottom, to just $0.99 for the next few days. I've also reduced the price...

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  • Cirque Du Freak’s 27th birthday

    08 May 2024

    Twenty-seven years ago today, on May 8th 1997, I was sitting in a car, babysitting a young cousin who was asleep in the back, when I had an idea for a book about a young boy who runs into a vampire...

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