News
Looking forward to a week’s holiday in France, a lovely Norway-Scotland cruise on the Seabourn Sojourn (on which I am lecturing) in August, a visit to St George’s School, Rome in the autumn, taking part in the Bath and Cheltenham Festivals, further work with school clusters in Basildon, Thanet and Canterbury, the autumn launch of the Timewarp Trials and Into the Unknown, running through the summer woods with Chess …
I am currently one of the judges for the 2010 Authors’ Licensing and Collecting
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Random thoughts and observations:
Into the Unknown … (Walker Books) the extra-special exploration book I’ve been doing with Steve Biesty (the brilliant cross-sections man) is almost ready after years and years of work … All singing, all dancing, with flaps and maps – and readable words, too!
The interactive (you the jury!) Timewarp Trials of Henry VIII, Boudicca, Guy Fawkes and William the Conqueror expected in the autumn. Best history fun since the Horrible Histories …
New editions of my adult guides to the Middle East Since 1945 and the
Israel-Palestine Problem also due in the autumn. (Busy year, yes.)
Working on Thingy, a picture book (no, not my pix!), a play about the time George I was blown ashore in Rye and became marooned there by a snow storm, revising and finishing my mss of Extraordinary Adventures of Timothy Bland, and writing horror-type hi-lo readers on the theme of angels (which aren’t) …
Also writing some courses for Canterbury Christ Church University’s new BA in Creative and Professional Writing, preparing next year’s courses at ICES (especially excited by new course on the English novel, 1700-1900), editing the film Barsea …
Planning to clear out and tidy up – the first time for 20 years – the shed in which I work …
Looking forward to Kate’s and Ellie’s graduations, a week’s holiday in France, a lovely Norway-Scotland cruise on the Seabourn Sojourn (on which I am lecturing) in August, a visit to St George’s School, Rome in the autumn, finishing the film Barsea, taking part in the Bath and Cheltenham Festivals, running through the summer woods with Chess …
Will endeavour to keep this page updated during 2010 - do contact me with comments and or pix please: words@stewartross.com
Stewart
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