…so here’s a quick reminder of some Reeve and Reeve & McIntyre books that you might want to add to your Christmas list. (Sorry if you’ve heard all this this before, but I’m hoping the Mortal Engines movie may bring some new readers who may not have heard about the other books!)

Railhead, Black Light Express and Station Zero – are all available in UK paperback editions with cover art by Ian McQue. It’s by far my favourite of the various fantasy and SF worlds I’ve dreamed up over the years, and it’s also home to my favourite characters. After spending the last four or five years on it, I miss it enough that I’m pretty sure I’ll be returning to the Network Empire at some point, but probably not to Zen and Nova – their story is complete, and you can read it in these three books.

It’s been great fun touring The Legend of Kevin around schools and festivals with Sarah McIntyre this autumn. The roly-poly flying pony seems to be going down well, and we’re already working on more stories about him and his best friend Max. Recommended serving suggestion:

The other Reeve & McIntyre titles are all available too. If you’re reading them to children they should work for 5 years upwards, and probably 7 upwards if kids are reading them on their own. (I LOVE working on these books.)

And the Reeve & McIntyre activity book Pug-A-Doodle-Do is also available, stuffed with story starters, comics tips, and silly things to do.

The Mortal Engines quartet has all been beautifully re-jacketed with Ian McQue’s artwork – if you’ve seen the movie and want to know more about the world, Mortal Engines is the place to start. Ian also did the fantastic illustrations for my new Annathology of Anna Fang stories, Night Flights – for which he’s been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and deservedly so.

The three Mortal Engines prequels, Fever Crumb, A Web of Air and Scrivener’s Moon may help to explain how the Traction Cities got rolling in the first place (though I always recommend that people read the original books first and then go back to Fever Crumb). And in The (lavishly) Illustrated World of Mortal Engines Jeremy Levett and I attempt to fill in some of the 500 years of unlikely future history which separates Scrivener’s Moon from Mortal Engines, as well as investigating how Tractionism developed in parts of the world that I never found time to explore in the novels.

The Goblins trilogy is a much lighter type of fantasy, as is my Victorian space adventure Larklight (NB: Johnny Duddle has painted new covers for Goblins (shown on the link above) and David Wyatt is doing the same for Larklight, but they won’t be around till next year. Copies with the older covers should still be available tough.).

Here Lies Arthur is (to date) my one attempt to write a novel outside the fantasy or SF genres; a tale set in 5th Century Britain about the grimy origins of the King Arthur legend. No Such Thing As Dragons starts out similarly historical as a con-artist and his apprentice dragon hunter roam the Alps offering to slay legendary dragons, but turns into fantasy when it becomes apparent that one of the dragons isn’t just a legend after all.

I’ve never written a picture book, but I know someone who has – all Sarah McIntyre’s are bright and brilliantly drawn, and she really understands pace and structure too, they’re a pleasure to read aloud. Her latest are the very funny Dinosaur Firefighters and The New Neighbours (which may be her best yet).

She has quite a backlist, too! And all Sarah’s books (including the ones we’ve done together) have free downloadable activity sheets which you can find on her website.

Right: self-publicity over. If you have been, thanks for reading!