30/09/2025
Can't wait to get into it!
Craig Silvey
Friends, it is here.
RUNT AND THE DIABOLICAL DOGNAPPING is released today.
I am so thrilled, so proud and so genuinely grateful to be sharing it with you.
An author can’t begin to consider a sequel without the support of a passionate and dedicated readership, and in that respect, there is no writer more blessed than I.
The response to RUNT has been extraordinary. I have been honoured by so many profoundly lovely messages from readers of all ages who have been uplifted and encouraged, spellbound and heartswept, amused and delighted, captured and enraptured by Annie Shearer and her remarkable best friend. And every item of correspondence signed off with the same request: more please.
My point is: thank you. To every reader. To every bookseller. To every teacher, every librarian, every advocate for literature. Thank you to each and every one of you for giving me the opportunity to extend my own stay in Upson Downs. I have such genuine affection for Annie and her tenacious, kind-hearted family. I love them dearly, and it has been a gift to continue their journey and see them grow and mature.
And now, it’s my chance to give back. I offer this book to you with an assurance that it will honour your belief and repay your kindness. Hope you love it. x