Cathy MacPhail, author of more than 45 children and teen fiction novels, visited 3rd year pupils’ on Monday 30th October. She gave a really interesting talk on how she gets her ideas for her books. One of the 3rd year classes had read one of Cathys most recent books entitled Mosi’s War about a refugee living in Glasgow. Cathy says ‘I like writing about real-life themes. I always say that for me the real magic is where the idea comes from’.