photo: Rex Shutterstock Judith Kerr, esteemed writer and illustrator of children’s and young adult books, died last week aged 95. I had ...

I’m at the Scattered Authors retreat this week, in lovely Charney Manor in Oxfordshire, a History Girl’s paradise. On Monday night I took p...

Every so often I go into a small grump about the way authors these days are forced into the role of performers.  Instead of bein...