Posts by Fran Grant

If you enjoyed a book, the most generous gift you can give an author is to leave a review! I read a lot. I write a lot. I review a lot.   Whatever profession you’re in, everyone deserves feedback, and most people need an encouraging pat on the good or a ‘you did great!’ We’re…

Author visits and creative writing workshops for schools in Yorkshire Following the launch of my book ‘Gruesome Tales for Gruesome Boys’ I’m delighted to announce that I will be visiting primary schools throughout the 2019 / 2020 academic year. I’m offering FREE workshops for schools in Leeds, which vary in content depending on year groups…

Get your Gruesome on – it’s Colouring Competition time! Join in the celebrations of the launch of my new children’s book GRUESOME TALES FOR GRUESOME BOYS How to enter: Email me at fran@frangrant.com to request black & white copies of the gruesome boys for you to print out and colour (or message me on Facebook…

Gruesome Tales for Gruesome Boys Click here to buy it on Amazon Gruesome Tales for Gruesome Boys is a collection of hilariously gruesome rhyming stories aimed at boys aged between 5 and 10 years old (although it may be enjoyed by slightly younger and slightly older boys, and girls too!)     Hello my friend…

Gruesome Tales For Gruesome Boys – coming soon! I’m seriously excited to announce that my new book will be published VERY SOON! Hello my friend now are you ready, to hear the tale of Earwax Eddie?   And Gemph Boy, what a smelly lad, who learned that farting’s not so bad!   There’s Harry Slater,…

The importance of reading with children ‘So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall’ ~ Roald Dahl The importance of reading (for children) cannot be emphasised enough, and I genuinely believe that as parents we should…

The Memory Collector – Fiona Harper This is another one of my late 2018 reads. I didn’t LOVE it if I’m honest, but it was OK. You know when you find a book that draws you in so much you become obsessed with it and you literally can’t wait to get to bed again so…

THIS IS GOING TO HURT – by Adam Kay From the cover: “97-hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Welcome to the life of a Junior Doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s diaries…

The Songs of Us – by Emma Cooper “Quirky, clever, and original, this will break your heart, but put it back together again” ~ Katie Fforde   From the cover: If Melody hadn’t run out of de-icer that day, she would never have slipped and banged her head. She wouldn’t be left with a condition…

Becoming – by Michelle Obama The autobiographical memoir of the former United States First Lady I wanted this book from the moment I first clapped eyes on it, and I was lucky enough to get it from Santa Claus for Christmas!    So what did I think after all the hype? I loved it! Though…