AN AWARD winning children’s author will be sharing his secret of success during a visit to Lowton CE High School.

Alan Gibbons will speak to year eight pupils at a special assembly before delivering a writing workshop where he will explore different writing styles and be interviewed by the school’s radio journalists.

The author of Shadow of the Minotaur which won the Blue Peter Book Award in 2000 will be at the school on January 27 from 9am until 12pm