{"id":3256,"date":"2015-08-07T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T06:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2015-08-23T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T10:30:09","slug":"the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"THE LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VSATSH_COV_44895_PC_AU-final1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3266\" src=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VSATSH_COV_44895_PC_AU-final1.jpg\" alt=\"VSATSH_COV_44895_PC_AU-final\" width=\"400\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VSATSH_COV_44895_PC_AU-final1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VSATSH_COV_44895_PC_AU-final1-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>My sessions today at Text Marks the Spot, the Bendigo Writer&#8217;s Festival Schools event, were great fun. Here&#8217;s my list of recommended books &#8211; starting, of course, with my own!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Susan Green: Walker Books 2015 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Withering-by-Sea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judith Rossell ABC Books 2014 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #5:The Unmapped Sea<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mary Rose Wood: Harper Collins 2015 (USA)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Awful Auntie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>David Walliams: Harper Collins 2014 (UK)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Soon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morris Gleitzman: Viking 2015 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Honest Truth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan Gemeinhart: Chicken House 2105 (USA)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neil Gaiman(UK) illustrated by Eddie Campbell (Australia): Headline 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Song for a Scarlet Runner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julie Hunt : Allen&amp;Unwin 2013 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Brotherhood of Thieves: The Final Battle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Daly: Random 2015 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em> The Letter for the King<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tonke Dragt: Pushkin 2015 (the Netherlands (Holland))<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Every Move<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ellie Marney: Allen &amp; Unwin 2015 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tiger Stone <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deryn Mansell: Black Dog Books 2015 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Song for Ella Grey<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Almond: Hodder 2015 (UK)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Cut Out<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jack Heath : Allen &amp; Unwin 2015 (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Heart of Two Worlds<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anne Plichota Pushkin 2014 (France)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sessions today at Text Marks the Spot, the Bendigo Writer&#8217;s Festival Schools event, were great fun. Here&#8217;s my list of recommended books &#8211; starting, of course, with my own! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=3256\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}