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		<title>DEAD MAN&#8217;S COVE ON NIBBIES SHORTLIST!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my publicist, Nina, told me that Dead Man&#8217;s Cove had been shortlisted for the 2011 Blue Peter Favourite Story and Book of the Year Awards, I nearly fainted. It was several minutes before I could speak. Winning both awards was one of the proudest moments of my life. Now Dead Man&#8217;s Cove has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shumba Goes to Bournemouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huge Congratulations to the very talented winners of the Pride in Bournemouth writing competition, where children were asked to finish my short story, Shumba&#8217;s Big Adventure. Hosted by the wonderful Beales Bookshop in association with Born Free, the aim was to find children with both a passion for helping wildlife and a gift for writing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Press!! Dead Man&#8217;s Cove wins Blue Peter&#8217;s 2011 Book of the Year Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dead Man&#8217;s Cove, the first in my new Laura Marlin mystery series, has won both Favourite Story and Book of the Year in Blue Peter&#8217;s Book of the Year Awards! And before you ask, no you can&#8217;t have my Blue Peter Badge. It&#8217;s under lock and key! For those in the US and beyond, Blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leopard Dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.laurenstjohn.com/giraffediaries/2010/12/leopard-dreams-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just back from three weeks in Africa. Three weeks of dust, silky cobalt skies and warm smiles. Of dawn choruses of birds, afternoon choruses of Christmas beetles and deafening frog orchestras in the dead of night. Of thunderstorms preceded by the iron smell of rain. Of rowdy lunches in the Brass Bell in Cape Town&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love &amp; Conflict: Why Africa Exerts Such a Powerful Hold over Writers</title>
		<link>http://www.laurenstjohn.com/giraffediaries/2010/10/love-conflict-why-africa-exerts-such-a-powerful-hold-over-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Chikwava and Lauren St John will be speaking at the Royal Geographical Society on 21 October 2010. Please come along if you can and help support an incredible cause, HIZ&#8217;s work with vulnerable and destitute elderly folk in Zimbabwe. For ticket information go to: www.hiz.org.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Elephant&#8217;s Tails &amp; Tiger Trails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a hot summer&#8217;s day a few weeks ago, I spent ten hours painting an elephant (not a real one) at the High Street Kensington branch of Waterstone&#8217;s in London. Afterwards, I felt as if I&#8217;d done ten aerobics&#8217; sessions. It might have taken less time had I used something larger than a three-haired watercolour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max goes Digital</title>
		<link>http://www.laurenstjohn.com/giraffediaries/2010/06/max-goes-digital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my Bengal cat, Max. The same people also know how hopeless I am at social media and keeping up with Twitter, etc. Well, now Max, who likes to think of himself as a co-author of my books (you can see from the photo how energetic he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Fell in Love with Malta</title>
		<link>http://www.laurenstjohn.com/giraffediaries/2010/05/how-i-fell-in-love-with-malta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 20:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highlight of May was, for me, a week of school visits in Malta, supported by the incredible Merlin Library, a bookstore and publisher which has been in the Gruppetta family for generations . Initially my trip was planned to coincide with the Children&#8217;s Book Festival, but the Icelandic Volcano put paid to that. Fortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just When Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.laurenstjohn.com/giraffediaries/2010/03/just-when-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just When Stories This autumn, Beautiful Books will be publishing the Just When Stories, a collection of short stories about endangered species in aid of the David Shepherd Foundation. Michael Morpurgo and William Boyd have contributed to the collection and I&#8217;ve written a story called Tiger Tiger. It&#8217;s a worthy cause and all money raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kidnaps &amp; Wombats</title>
		<link>http://www.laurenstjohn.com/giraffediaries/2010/02/kidnaps-wombats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAURA MARLIN MYSTERY RESEARCH I’m frequently trying to convince people that, as an occupation, writing is harder than wrestling alligators. It’s also one of the worst paid professions on earth. Forget what you’ve read about how JK Rowling lives in a castle and travels by Rolls Royce. The average children’s author earns 2,500 pounds a [...]]]></description>
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