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Posted on December 21, 2011 - by MG

When MG met LJ

Sometimes I don’t blog everything interesting that happens to me right away; I save it up for a rainy day. Back in Nov 2009 I was on BBC TV’s Click – a show devoted to all things techie and presented by a fab fellow geek girl, the multi-talented LJ Rich. I made a little video [...]

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Posted on April 11, 2011 - by MG

Worlds Collide: Dark Parallel meets The Devil’s Triangle

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The DARK PARALLEL launch season began with a lovely event at Waterstone’s Milton Keynes, where I was joined by the dashing former RAF pilot, YA author Mark Robson. We swapped books and decided to interview each other about our latest offerings. Mark’s latest is a VERY shiny new exciting thing, a book about an adventure [...]

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Posted on March 30, 2011 - by MG

English Baccalaureate – not quite there yet

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I’ve been at the BBC Millbank studios today talking about my thoughts on the English Baccalaureate on the BBC Daily Politics show. In my role as a school governor (which I don’t talk about much here…!) and chair of our governors’ Curriculum Committee, it’s my role to support the school in implementing government policy. Under the last government there [...]

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Posted on March 28, 2011 - by MG

Save the Libraries – Kennington (Part 2 of 2)

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Update on the Pied Piper March in support of the Kennington Library (see Save the Libraries – Kennington (Part 1 of 2)) I received a lovely letter from the organiser, Paddy Landau, as well as a CD of photos from the day. The event was a huge success! Councillor Keith Mitchell turned up to the [...]

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Posted on March 10, 2011 - by MG

Blog swap! Katherine Langrish and MG Harris interviewed by teen readers.

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Today it is my turn to host the fabulous Katherine Langrish on her WEST OF THE MOON blog tour. Katherine and I are interviewed by two teenage readers, Libby and Patrick Caffrey, who have been following both Katherine’s TROLL FELL and my Joshua Files series. You can read the interview with me over at Katherine’s [...]

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Posted on March 7, 2011 - by MG

Return to Eggli Mountain

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As I tell kids when I visit schools, the Eggli mountain near the Swiss town of Gstaad is where I broke my leg skiing, the ‘lucky break’ which gave me the time and mental space to start my writing career. I hadn’t been back – until today! Visiting my brother Michael and his family, I [...]

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The ZERO MOMENT blog tour

Here is the list of articles in the ZERO MOMENT blog tour which ran throughout May 2010, along with the kind blogs run by friends of mine who have kindly agreed to host a rant, ramble, book review or intelexshull think-piece. Z is for Zany Orange Puffles and social networking sites for children here at [...]

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A Joshua Files Mexico Trip: Part 1 – Veracruz state

If reading ‘The Joshua Files’ has made you curious about Mexico and its rich diversity of attractions; ancient ruins in the jungle, old colonial towns, turquoise beaches, then here’s the perfect trip for you, exclusively researched by me! Josh Garcia’s Mexico Photo on left shows the sleepy old town of Tlacotalpan on the River Papaloapan, [...]

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Interviewed!

I’ve finally gotten around to editing some of the audio and video files I’ve had on the hard drive for months. There’s now a page of collected MG Harris interviews, audio and written, from BBC radio as well as a podcast, book blogs, writers’ blogs and The Oxford Times. It’s strange being interviewed. I’m clearly [...]

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