Spellbinder

About Ghillian Potts

As well as bringing up a family Ghillian Potts worked in bookshops in educational publishing and as a secondary school teacher. She wrote continuously both prose and verse since she was 7. At that age she got out of a bit of housework by saying Must I Mum? Im writing a Poem! in her best whine. To her amazement her mum at once said Oh all right Ill do it! Obviously writing was a Good Thing. As well as a number of stories for younger children published in the 1990s and 2000s one of which Sink or Swim featured on Jackanory she has written historical readers for a local school. Young adult novels have been written at various stages in her career but none have been published until now.