Welcome to my site!

I write books for all ages, for young children to teenage and adults. I have also written a book on writing - Writing for Children - for both aspiring and newly published authors.

While I spend quite a lot of time visiting libraries, schools and festivals talking about my books and running creative writing workshops, I do manage to find time to write, too!

Latest News:

Saturday 15th December 1pm and 2pm

A Christmas treat for kids at Borders, Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh

Come and join us in the Children’s Department on Saturday 15^th December for a special winter story time with Hamish McHaggis.

I will be reading from What Colour is Love? and stories from the Hamish McHaggis books starting at 1pm and at 2pm.

In between we will have some fun, festive colouring activities! For more details please ask a member of staff or call 0131 657 4041

or check out Borders Books website at www.borderslocal.co.uk/fort-kinnaird/events

TV Debut – CODEX

For those of you who have asked we now know the date of the Codex show. Saturday 1st December on Channel 4 at 5.45pm.

Codex is a history quiz show that takes place in the British Museum in London and is filmed in the middle of the night. Our show started filming at 3am!

Hosted by Tony Robinson two teams of colleagues are asked questions on various artefacts from the Museum and the prize is £3000 and a CODEX cube. Our team of Children’s writers were Charles Butler, Mark Robson and me. Our opposing team were all archaeologists! So if you can watch it you will see how we got on. The programme is repeated an hour later on 4+1.

We had a great time during the filming and also when we went to the Archbishop Courtney Primary school in Maidstone for the introductory part. The children there were real stars! I am hoping to put stills from the show on my website quite soon after the show.