February competition ends TONIGHT!!
14 February 2022Can you think of a better Valentine's Day present for the special Shanster in your life than a signed, dated copy of Volume 2 of the Cirque Du Freak manga omnibus?!? This Volume includes Book 3,...
Limerick’s Greenway
13 February 2022Back in the summer, the Shans (with Bapcia, Mrs Shan's mother) headed for Limerick's brand new Greenway, a 40 kilometre smooth path through the countryside, built over an old, disused railway line,...
Evra drawings
12 February 202222 years after he was first unleashed on an unsuspecting world in Cirque Du Freak, the snakeboy Evra Von continues to be an extremely popular character among budding artists. Here are four of the...
Culturess - TV adaptations
10 February 2022There was an interesting article on the Culturess web site a while back, entitled Book Series Could Benefit More From Television Adaptations (as opposed to movie adaptations). The thrust of the...
Creative curricula
09 February 2022When Cirque Du Freak was first published in the UK, my publishers were very worried that lots of teachers and librarians would rise up in a furious wave to condemn it -- although Goosebumps and...
A brace of Spanish reviews
08 February 2022Although my books for some reason never sold especially well in their Spanish translations (my publishers only published the first nine books in my Cirque Du Freak series, in three trilogy...