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What’s Ukrainian for Football?
Nika This is the second Girls FC title being released this week and it’s the one that made my editors cry. Now that’s an accolade! I’m proud of this one, too. It’s my first novel using a real event...
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Bravery
Nika After posting yesterday’s piece on Miep Gries I’ve been thinking about bravery. I write about bravery a lot. Nika’s story, ‘What’s Ukrainian for Football’ is about bravery. In it, Nika re-tells...
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Reads United take Padiham Town Hall by storm…
waiting for the best day of their lives to begin… The football season officially started on Friday March 12th when Reads United hit Padiham. Padiham, until then a sleepy town near Burnley in...
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Letters
Letter written by King George V as a child © Bodleian Library, Oxford OK, so we’ve got Facebook and Twitter and email and Youtube and txt (LOL) and telephones and four million other ways of...
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Kiev part 2: football
One of the main things I wanted to see in Kiev was the statue to the four Dynamo Kiev/FC Start players who were executed by the Nazis during WW2. Unfortunately my tour guide, Helen, had no knowledge...
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Match of Death August 9th 1942
On this day in 1942, FC Start played Flakelf at football in what became known as The Match of Death. FC Start, made up of players from Dynamo Kiev, were ordered by the Gestapo at half time not to beat...
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Deja Vu
Now that my blog entries are much easier to scroll down I’ve spent a few minutes re-reading earlier entries. I clicked on ‘May 2010′ to find out what I was doing this time last year and I was in Kiev...
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James Riordan 1936-2012
I was sad to discover children’s writer James Riordan has died of a brain tumour. He was 76. Jim was a lovely guy. I met him at an author party at Oxford University Press. I don’t know how we got...
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World Cup 2014
In case you missed it because you live on a desert island or you hate football (in which case, you might want to Google another writer but please come back after July 13th) – England kick off their...
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