Hugely exciting that Charlotte Eyre from the Bookseller has included IRONHEART in her top 5 children’s books from 2014. In such great company too! Thank you Charlotte.

It was while I was packing my bag for Antarctica that my son gave me his carefully considered assessment of my research habits. ‘Dad, isn’t it true that you’re just writing books about the places you want to go and […]

IRONHEART receives a four star review in the Sunday Express

Amanda Craig interviews Allan Boroughs in The Telegraph newspaper on 1st Feb 2014. Female characters in adventure stories like The Hunger Games no longer obey the sexist stereotype. The heroine is central, and her 'quest’ is not to find love, but to save the world

Are you a reviewer, book blogger or someone who recommends books to others either on-line or in print? If so, and you would you like to obtain a free copy of IRONHEART in exchange for an honest and fair review, […]

16th January saw the official launch party for IRONHEART at Waterstones in Islington. Wonderful to have so many of my friends there to support me – thanks to everyone who came along

IRONHEART was finally published today. It is a hugely exciting time for me; I am very proud of the finished book and extremely grateful to everyone at Macmillan who worked really hard to make it look so fabulous. So now […]

Less than two days to go until IRONHEART is published and I am like a small child that has had too much espresso. Here’s me at the Edge of the World bookshop in Penzance signing their stock in readiness – […]

It was great to be at Macmillan’s offices last week on the day that IRONHEART arrived back from the printers. Wonderful to actually hold this thing that I have lived with for the last three years – can’t wait for […]

The Chicxulub crater was caused by an asteroid hitting the earth approximately 65 million years ago. It was large enough to send a superheated cloud of gas and dust high into the Earth’s atmosphere and create worldwide Tsunami and earthquakes. […]

The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk in February was a reminder about of how suddenly asteroids can strike and how deadly they can be. It was also the third major meteor strike in Russia in just over a century. This […]