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 Gillian Thornton interviewed me for The People’s Friend in April 2026. Siân Shipley’s wonderful Dream of the Dance was featured in Horse and Hound in September 2025. Jane Badger Books appeared in International Thoroughbred in their June/July 2025 issue – it’s a really in-depth one about how I came to do what…
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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…