On Friday night I was lucky enough to be invited to the Teen Titles celebration at the Edinburgh International Book Festival along with authors Lari Don and Annemarie Allan. For those of you who don’t know Teen Titles is a fantastic book review magazine produced by Edinburgh City Council with all the reviews written by [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that Caroline Clough has won the Kelpies Prize 2010 with her book Red Fever. We announced the winner at an awards ceremony at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night. The shortlisted authors had to travel from all over the country and Ritske Rensma (author of The Angel Ashariel) even flew [...]

I’ve just sent our newest Kelpie, Cloudberry Castle by Janey Louise Jones (the author of Princess Poppy), to the printers! This is really exciting because it means that in just over a month we’ll be seeing the first copies of the book before they head off to the bookshops. Cloudberry Castle is a brilliant book [...]

August is here and Edinburgh is all set to become the city of festivals for a whole month. We’ve got the Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and best of all the Edinburgh International Book Festival! The Book Festival starts on Saturday 14th August and I can’t wait to go and see the famous authors [...]