...plates that I am supposed to be spinning, but frankly it is hard to paint illustrations while spinning plates.

Book shop picture

Crash!


What was that you might ask? Well it was the sound of plates falling, plates that I am supposed to be spinning, but frankly it is hard to paint illustrations while spinning plates, so a few of them have crashed to the floor, making a dreadful mess behind the counter in my online bookshop. So, as I crunch around on the broken crockery I see that my website has become invisible, and as invisibility is not the best way for a shop to make sales, I’m here sweeping up the broken plates and setting some new ones off spinning.


So if you have just come across my website, and are wondering what the circus act is all about, well, may I redirect you to my shop, where all is calm and the books are waiting to be browsed at your leisure.

There are picture books, bursting characters and colour. There are early reader chapter books where words and picture come alive and jump off the page… and one for the animal lovers… the real life story of how I became outnumbered by cats.

Crash – oh no. there we go again. 

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