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A synopsis can explain what a book is about, but it cannot always express what the story means to its author. So, while I would encourage readers to look at the official synopsis on the retailers’ websites, I’d also like to share my personal perspective. I did not write The Gnome’s Dirty Little Secret for the market. I wrote it for readers from eight to eighty years of age. Yes, eighty! At its heart, the story follows Peter, a ten-year-old boy whose parents’ ambition to win a gardening competition leads him into an unlikely friendship with Hop, an unruly field gnome. What begins as a practical problem gradually becomes an imaginative adventure filled with magic, humour, friendship, and difficult questions. The book explores ambition, courage, belonging, and the way we decide what is valuable. For me, the “dirty little secret” represents the ability we all have to turn something undesirable into something precious. Magic in its purest form. That is my personal take on The Gnome’s Dirt...

Curiosities About the Making of The Gnome’s Dirty Little Secret When I wrote The Gnome’s Dirty Little Secret , at the time the world faced the COVID-19 pandemic. It was duri ng lockdown that I found inspiration to write this story beside a lonely tree where I lived. The chaos of the wo rld contrasted with the sudden silence in the streets of São Paulo, and, having found a small, hidden spot close to nature, I felt like my mind and my heart soared higher than I could have previously imagined. I felt called to write about gnomes and their ways, and with this came the story of Peter and his life in the village of Wandlore. As I wrote it, I could hear singing inside my head, close to my ear—a sweet, constant melody that I still can’t reproduce to this day. It was always there, so sweet and inspiring, and I soon discovered I could always count on its presence as I wrote. Then, when I finished writing, the singing stopped, just like that. That’s why, in the foreword to this book, I tell read...

Curiosities and Insights about the Making of Midnight Rush: Living on the Edge The idea for Midnight Rush: Living on the Edge came from a dream I had —a lavish and haunting dream I wished would never end. In this dream, I saw myself in the underground as part of a daunting, free, and powerful group of beings who walked in the shadows to find the light. The possibilities were unfathomable. I finished writing the story around 2009–2010 , but it wasn't until 2026 that I revisited the text and edited it to my liking. The story takes place in London , and there is a specific reason for this. Growing up in England as a child, London appealed to my senses as an ocean of greater, unexpressed potential. Everything there—from the punk scene to the excessive number of pigeons in Trafalgar Square and the Tube—seemed wholly mysterious and darkly magical. To me, Midnight Rush: Living on the Edge , speaks of a new, greater understanding of what it means to be human in this world and age, and wh...

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