A nice global spread
11 January 2023I replied to some fan mail today, and in the order I went through them, the letters came from... Sweden, the USA, England, Japan, and New Zealand. Now that was a fairly cool geographical sweep,...
Pontefract and school events
10 January 2023Look 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...
Best reads of 2022
09 January 2023So, 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...
Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo
08 January 2023Over 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...
Zero time - part 1
07 January 2023A 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...
First bookshelfies of 2023
06 January 2023It'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...