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April 22, 2021

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'Fancy Believing in the Goblin King'

Two winters ago I was told a story by a friend of mine. A true story, about an episode from his childhood he’d never mentioned before. ‘I met David Bowie once. It was in London, it was Christmas, and I’d won a competition. We sang a song together…’ It was a magical encounter, and I didn’t stop quizzing my friend until he gave me all the details, and then said he didn’t mind if wrote an account of it for my blog. It was story I knew that people would love: the tale of the shy, clever, autistic boy and how he met David Bowie, who was kind to him, and as magical as anyone could hope for. And who told him about the wearing of invisible masks… I wrote a short piece about it and, within twenty minutes of posting it on my blog, it had gone viral. Somehow it had been noticed by people. David Bowie’s widow retweeted it with hearts, and so did his son. And then, suddenly, thousands and tens of thousands and then hundreds of thousand

An Interview with Rowan Coleman

Please tell us everything we need to know about the new book! The Vanished Bride imagines that before they were famous authors the Bronte sisters were amateur sleuths. In the first of the series they hear of the disappearance of a young wife and mother, who has vanished from her home, Chester Grange, leaving behind a room covered in blood. Naturally curious, intelligent and formidable, the sisters decide to become ‘detectors’ and discover what happened to Elizabeth Chester. Is there going to be a lovely series of Bronte adventures, that will continue forever..? I really hope so! I’d love that, because they are a joy to research and write. Book 2 is coming in 2020 and at present I have two more planned. Each book is interwoven with the real biographical facts, and takes place over a few days – so it is possible to fit in a lot of detecting into their all too short lives. How do you go about slotting these mysteries into what we know about t

James and the Lovely Story Factory

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