Books

Books

I ❤️ books.

I love to read them and I love to write them.  

Publication list:

The Ballad of the She Pirate Mouse (March 2025)

Woollies and Uggs (Bateman Books, 2024)

The Wetter the Better (Duck Creek Press, 2016)

Fizzy Pop (Bookhead Press, 2016)

Stand the Van Man (Scholastic, 2015). Winner Storylines Joy Cowley Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2014

New release

The Ballad of the She Pirate Mouse

'Piratical punch-ups and duels at dawn. Battles on boats with cutlasses drawn. Biting and fighting and thieving - that's me! I'm small, but I'm tough. I'm the Queen of the Sea.'

Out 1 March 2025

Woollies and Uggs
Woollies and Uggs is the story of Luella, a youngest child who always insists on doing things her own way, even if it has disastrous consequences. It’s a celebration of family, beaches, determination, ugg boots, and, despite what you might expect from the title, summer.

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Stan the Van ManMiss Mickle’s Post Shop is in chaos. Her van driver has walked off the job, and there’s no-one to deliver the mail. Neighbour Stan says he'll help out. But he's hiding a secret, that may cause even more chaos than before. F…

Stan the Van Man

Miss Mickle’s Post Shop is in chaos. Her van driver has walked off the job, and there’s no-one to deliver the mail. Neighbour Stan says he'll help out. But he's hiding a secret, that may cause even more chaos than before. 

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Fizzy PopFizzy Lizzy is addicted to soft drinks. On the day of the school cross country, Lizzy is involved in a carbonated catastrophe.  It takes an ingenious plan from Max Martin and his giant brain to save her.  But will Lizzy change her…

Fizzy Pop

Fizzy Lizzy is addicted to soft drinks. On the day of the school cross country, Lizzy is involved in a carbonated catastrophe.  It takes an ingenious plan from Max Martin and his giant brain to save her.  But will Lizzy change her fizzy ways forever?

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The Wetter The Better'Frowning black clouds, lightening fork flashes.Fast-falling raindrops, thunderbolt crashes.Wetter and wetter and wetter it got.It just kept on raining. It just wouldn't stop.'Lily and Theo don't want to walk to school on the st…

The Wetter The Better

'Frowning black clouds, lightening fork flashes.
Fast-falling raindrops, thunderbolt crashes.
Wetter and wetter and wetter it got.
It just kept on raining. It just wouldn't stop.'

Lily and Theo don't want to walk to school on the stormiest day of the year, but they are in for a surprise. And so is Mum

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