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The Origins of QuizzicalWorks

The Origins of QuizzicalWorks

So how did all this start – the stories, QuizzicalWorks, the behatted upside-down man? My paternal grandmother was Danish, and during the 1920s and early 30s my father and his siblings spent idyllic summers halfway up the east Sjælland coast in the family home in Humlebæk, a small town not far...

Introducing The Schnoodle Bag

Introducing The Schnoodle Bag

‘This is my schnoodle bag,’ said Aziz. ‘Keep it with you and you’ll never want for stories.’ – and I never have, as you’ll discover in this collection of 16 of them in which anyone and anything can have a voice: from a social-climbing sock and a shadow thief to a lovesick umbrella and a...

A Handful Of Stories

A Handful Of Stories

Some years ago, I discovered a handful of stories I’d written while staying regularly in Hans Christian Andersen’s house in Copenhagen. As the stories – fables – were somewhat similar (unintentionally) in style and content to what HCA might have written, I like to think that being so close to his...