Category: Writing
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Finding Jinny
by Siân Shipley I remember it like it was yesterday. 1993. Down past the shopping precinct, the cricket pitch, the playing fields and back again. My schoolfriend Becky, sat on her chestnut pony Pepe outside the bakery, holding the reins of big bay Jolly whilst her Mam queued for sausage rolls. The surgery, the play-ground,…
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Jane Badger Books in the press
In the press The Jinny books by Patricia Leitch made it into Horse and Hound in September 2024. Horse and Hound featured my Jill and the Lost Ponies as one of their books of 2021, and also wrote about me republishing the Jill books. Jane Badger Books features regularly in Boys Ride Too. Town &…
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My Writing
I was a writer before I ever began publishing. Here’s a list of what I’ve done. Recent writing K M Peyton’s Edge of the Cloud, Children’s Book History Society, August, 2025. Transcript of talk at the October 2024 Study Day. Obituary of K M Peyton, Children’s Book History Society, April, 2024. I also spoke about…