Things to Do on Holiday: Creative Workshops for Children in Cranleigh, Surrey 3rd & 4th April

I will be running some creative workshops for children at Manns of Cranleigh, Surrey, on the 3rd and 4th April, with children's author Zanna Davidson.

Book your places here: there are two groups, for 5-7s and 7-11s.

Reading at Royal Holloway Boiler House

Photo taken by Eng Soc at RH

Last night I performed a reading from my work at the Boiler House, Royal Holloway University, for their English Society. I very much enjoyed reading from The Double Axe: the first chapter, in which Stephanos kills a white hind and the curse is activated; and also a selection from The Liberators, in which Ivo Moncrieff is confronted by Julius Luther-Ross. There was enough time too to read the moment in The Other Book when Edward lays a dead raven on a tomb; and for the swan chase in The Broken King. It was a real pleasure to be able to read to the students, who asked pertinent and intelligent questions; and also to hear some of them reading out their own work afterwards.

Philip Womack opens new library at Lancing College Prep Worthing

A few weeks ago I took the train down to the South Coast from London - something which I used to do, back and forth, a lot when I was a teenager. It's always a marvel seeing Lancing College rising out of the South Downs, its Gothic spires reaching into the sky. I was very pleased to have been asked to open the new Library at Lancing College Prep, Worthing. There is a news article about it on the school's website, here.

Interview with Christopher Edge for Books for Keeps

I chatted to author Christopher Edge for Books for Keeps about his new book, The Jamie Drake Equation. Read it here.