I’m delighted to announce that I have finally produced an eBook of ‘Stranded in the Six-Day War’, the tale of the 14 merchant ships marooned in the Suez Canal at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. I wanted to...

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I write many children’s non-fiction books but some are particularly special to me. Far From Home: Refugees Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty is one of them. The crisis in contextCommissioned by Franklin Watts in 2015, at the height of the refugee...

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One year ago, I published Stranded in the Six-Day War. It was launched at the 50^th anniversary reunion of seafarers who were marooned on merchant ships in the Suez Canal following the Six-Day War. Sales and talks Since then, I have...

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'I think it’s important for tutors to recognise that international students are being asked to carry out a difficult task; the level of English needed to write a Masters dissertation or PhD thesis is advanced.' Miranda Miller shares students' concerns;...

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Last week, I was invited to speak at the Free University of Brighton about my book Stranded in the Six-Day War. Trapped Drawing on first-hand accounts by Peter Flack and Graham McMorine, I described...

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I'm very pleased to hear that Far From Home: Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty (Watts, 2017) has been long listed for the School Library Association Information Book Award 2018. The book was commissioned in 2015,...

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Here's a shortened extract from Stranded in the Six-Day War about how the seafarers on trapped ships in the Suez Canal created their own stamps – miniature works of art. Soon after their arrival in the Bitter Lake, some seafarers...

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As I’m about to launch a new edition of Stranded in the Six-Day War, I continue my series of posts with extracts from the book alongside new, unpublished photos – some here kindly provided by Siegfried Hellwig following the...

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The role of the captain of a ship is usually crystal clear. But what about when he is stuck on a stranded ship in a war zone, with no prospect of leaving any time soon? On the 14 merchant vessels...

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Writing can be a lonely business, whether you write for a living or are working on a student assignment. Working in the same space as others can be a fantastic motivator - and you can bounce ideas around or air...

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