Welcome to my website! I’m a British author, and I have been writing since 1983. In that time I have had some 70 books published, by Dorling Kindersley, Oxford University Press, Kingfisher, Walker Books and other publishers.
Most of my books are illustrated information books for children, but I have also written children’s stories, and several books for adults. Some have won prizes: Pirate Diary (Walker Books) won a Smarties silver prize, and a Blue Peter award. Three other books reached the Aventis science prize shortlist.
I don’t just write books: I have written restaurant reviews, corporate reports, TV scripts and museum interpretation, and I have appeared on TV and radio.
Fiction
underpinned by facts in a rip-roaring yarn by Richard Platt
Sunday Times on Castle Diary