Alien Onion

There's a sad sort of clanging From the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple, too And up in the nursery An absurd little bird Is popping out to say coo-coo (Coo-coo, coo-coo) S...

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So it seems we are not the only workplace at which colleagues adopt similar sartorial sensibilities . The good folk at I Like Looking Like Other People - who are in the business of celebratin...

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1) Remember how this happened ? And then this happened ? Well, now this has happened ... We should just institute a uniform and be done with it. Now... I wonder what that should look l...

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This, O my Best Beloved, is a story - a new and a wonderful story - a story quite different from the other stories - a story of co-operation. We tend to think of book-writing as a solo...

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In the High and Far-Off Times, O Best Beloved, the Publisher had no stories. But she had a friend, a Literary Agent. And so that was all right, Best Beloved. Do you see? Sometimes, publish...

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 Before the Chapter Books and the Bind Ups and the Box Sets, O my Best Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings. When an author brings a work to us they often imagine it in a parti...

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For our 25th anniversary we've been sharing the Origin stories of the Onions. We walked a lot of different paths to the House of Onion, some smooth, some thorny and some with a higher-than-ex...

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On Sunday at the Little Bookroom in Carlton, Ann James launched Kirsty Murray's enchanting time-slip novel The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie  out into the world. It was a lovely celebration; t...

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To be sung, mournfully, to the tune of Red River Valley... From this office they say you are going. We will miss your dry wit and great style. For from us you are taking the sunshine,...

http://alienonion.blogspot.com/2013/07/its-not-all-sunshine-and-roses-over-here.html

We don't have a town cryer, or a gilt easel, but we have news.  Hear ye.... Hear ye... A BABY!  Not the royal one. Well, she's Fitzroyalty*, but not the other, more British, more expens...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the twelfth edition of Onion Origins - our Fearless Leader in the Mothership. AN 8-MONTH MATERNITY-L...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the eleventh edition of Onion Origins. Offering a bribe... In December 1994 - so long ago! - I we...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing  we are delighted to present the tenth edition of Onion Origins. IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITIES I find it hard, almost impossible,...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the ninth edition of Onion Origins. A HAPPY SURPRISE When I was at school I loved to read, liked ...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the eighth edition of Onion Origins. FINDING MY PEOPLE I was a sporty, bookish kind of girl, and...

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Dear Readers, We have news. Very exciting news! On Saturday, at the Sydney Writers' Festival  the recipient of the 2013/2014 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship was announced. And we ...

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We have an announcement. A very important announcement. We have a new cake-maker in the House! Yes, it's true. A new cake-maker. And she has certainly wowed us with her cake-making. Her...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the seventh edition of Onion Origins - from another Onion in our Sydney office. FINDING MY CALLING....

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the sixth edition of Onion Origins. WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT... I almost came to Allen & Unwin four ...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the fifth edition of Onion Origins - this one's from an Onion in our Sydney office. A VERY SENSIBLE...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the fourth edition of Onion Origins. SO, TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF... I didn't believe my ...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the third edition of Onion Origins. A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS In 2006 I enrolled in the Profes...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the second edition of Onion Origins. ONCE UPON A BOOKSTORE (IN OXFORD)… I had finished four y...

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We must interrupt our Onion Origin stories for the saddest (and rarest) of occasions: an Onion Departure. Bruno Herfst, our beloved Tall Designer, is leaving us. We are heartbroken. Which i...

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In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing  we are delighted to present the inaugural edition of Onion Origins. > THE JOB INTERVIEW  > A two-storey terrace house...

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