This is a special edition poster for my stage adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's hit novel Refugee Boy at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Please share and click on poster.
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Left Paddington Station for Bristol at 8am this morning - up at 6am. Said hello to Giles Brandreth in the Taxi rank on his way to see Tom Morris at The Bristol Old Vic. I'm working with Morag Myerscough Read more [...]
I received a message that began “I’m shaking as I type all this as I haven't ever discussed with anyone else before.” He wrote his phone number and I called. Immediately. “Do you remember Mr Read more [...]
Today I introduced children's authors onto stage at Southbankcentre's Imagine Festival for Letterbox Live . Letterbox Live celebrates The Letterbox Club for which I am patron. Letterbox Club gets books Read more [...]
I’m at Arvon in the wilds of Devon deep in the South West of England. It’s still dark but a slight blue is seeping through. I can hear a rasping partridge outside and a clutter of wings . The Read more [...]
So I am on the plane returning to england from Pakistan. I'm sat next to a charming woman and we get along like a house on fire. Turns out she runs Lollip and laddu who provide videography and photography Read more [...]
Eighty-four people were killed and two hundred wounded in a suicide bomb last night in Quetta. This morning the hotel is sombre; the breakfast lounge is quiet and guards with double barrel shotguns Read more [...]
It’s my final reading at The Karachi Literature Festival in The Sunflower Room again. This one was for young people but the audience was wonderfully mixed. A good literature festival curates new Read more [...]
Tonight I attended a garden party at The British Deputy British High Commissioners place. And very snazzy it is too. The people in the picture are fashion designers but the woman to my left. She Read more [...]