My first books were for younger children. In Drake's Drummer Boy (1998), Will sails around the world with Sir Francis Drake; in Sam Stars at Shakespeare's Globe (2006), Sam works with William Shakespeare. As you can see already, I like the sixteenth century. And the more I learn about it, the more it fascinates me. Young people then were not very different from today, as you will read in Raven Queen, which I have written for older readers. I do all kinds of writing: stories for young people learning english as a foreign language; and re-telling the classics for young children in a series called Fast Track Classics