November - 2017

Kennel Lane School Author Visit

A huge thank you to everybody at Kennel Lane School in Bracknell for letting me visit the children again with the new Annie's Grannies adventure. I always say it but reading and chatting to the children is my favourite thing to do.

1st Binfield Brownies & Rainbows Author Visit

A massive thank you to everybody at the 1st Binfield Brownies and Rainbows for having me back to talk about and read the new Annie's Grannies adventure. Once again the girls were so well behaved and it's an absolute pleasure to see how excited they were to hear the latest instalment. Thank you to the Owls who played Vinny so well and to Brown Owl for organising everything.

The Wokingham Paper

Some lovely feedback from Lorraine, the winner of the Annie's Grannies book competition from The Wokingham Paper. "Thank you very much for the two Annie's Grannies books. We all love them, especially my Grandson Sam, he will have great pleasure reading them. In addition, we were all impressed with the little matching bookmarks, how very special!" "Once again, thank you so much, we are all delighted!"

And here’s the TV Interview!

Here’s the link to my That’s TV Thames Valley interview about Annie’s Grannies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMizn8pDBJ0

That’s Thames Valley TV Interview

Just finished being interviewed about the Annie’s Grannies books by Thats Thames Valley TV. It will be shown tonight at 6pm and repeated during the evening on the Thames Valley News on FREEVIEW CHANNEL 7. If you’re not in the Thames Valley area you can watch it after 6pm on the Thats Thames Valley YouTube feed. We may even get a first time TV appearance from the four legged cameo star from the books, the elusive Vinny dog. www.thats.tv/thamesvalley/

The Wokingham Paper

A huge thank you to The Wokingham Paper for their article about Annie’s Grannies in this weeks edition😊..it’s so exciting! https://www.wokinghampaper.com/budding-barkham-author-darron-cooks-novel-childrens-tale/amp/

It's Here!

After some disastrous decorating, our inept trio turn their hand to baking... ...What could possibly go wrong! Annie's Grannies in Cooking Calamity has arrived and is available to purchase now.

Cooking Calamity Bookmarks

The bookmarks for Cooking Calamity have just arrived! Less than a week to go until the book is released.

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