Laura gains audience appreciation through her fans' constant laughter and jovial atmosphere, which is very evident on any recording of her work in action.

This year, she has expressed a great interest in using her performing abilities to read for us and produce a digital version of her book Mistakes in the Background. This audio version will only be available as a download - one which promises to be the catalyst for many more fantastic titles to come!

Enter the weird and wonderful world of Laura Dockrill: "I draw like a left-handed baby; I can hardly spell my own name, and watching me use a glue-stick is a bit like watching a large bear trying to ram his own head into a pocket-sized cat-flap ...no, really. But once the book is finished, when I can see the pages coming together, getting thicker and thicker, detailed and covered with stories and my imagination recorded on pages ...everything at last makes sense (to me at least). I did this because I have got things to say. I've got pictures I want you to see and characters I want you to meet - the crying ice-skating boy, the Rolf Harris obsessive, the rude girl in McDonalds with the chocolate milkshake, and the try-hard Mighty Boosh watching mum. I don't keep a diary. I think they're crap. But this is much more than a diary. This is my map...."