Look at these happy students from The King's School in Pontefract (which is in West Yorkshire, in England). After reading Cirque Du Freak, their teacher encouraged them to write letters to me, and...

So, now that the dust has settled on 2022, here's my reading round-up for the year. (I meant to do this last week, but kept forgetting!)

In total I read 47 books (although I'm still ploughing...

Over the Christmas holidays, the Shan clan went on a day trip to Dublin, partly to visit Funderland, but mainly to go to Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo. Mrs Shan had wanted to go to this for quite a few...

A hugely talented fan of my books, called ZERO, drew a series of sketches based on scenes in Cirque Du Freak, and I'm delighted to share the first four of them, all of which relate to the first...

It's my first bookshelves post of 2023 -- hurrah!!!

BORIS likes to stack his Shan collection horizontally (I know some bibliophiles find this notion heretical, but I stack some of MY collection...

Whatever one's opinions about the Cirque Du Freak movie, released back in 2009, there's no denying it had one heck of a talented, well-established cast of HUGE cinema and TV stars -- John C Reilly,...