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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Looking at the Stars, by Jo Cotterill

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A couple of weeks ago, I was at a gathering of children's writers in Oxfordshire. It's an annual event, held in a mellow golden ston...
Thursday, 2 July 2015

In Tearing Haste - letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Last week, I was wondering round my local bookshop, Waterstones in Wells. (There are no independent bookshops within easy reach, and this Wa...
Monday, 22 June 2015

Congratulations to Tanya Landman, winner of the 2015 Carnegie Medal!

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The Carnegie Medal is the big one for writers of children's books - the one we'd all like to win. (Well, we'd like to win any pr...
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Monday, 15 June 2015

Marbeck and the Gunpowder Plot, by John Pilkington

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Before he took to writing novels, John Pilkington wrote television scripts and plays for radio and theatre. Clearly, he has used the skills ...
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Liberty's Fire, by Lydia Syson

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Like Lydia Syson's previous books, A World Between Us and That Burning Summer , this novel has as its subject love in a time of confli...
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Thursday, 21 May 2015

The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro

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The first book I read by Kazuo Ishiguro was An Artist of the Floating World. I had taken my son up to Warwick University for an open day, a...
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Monday, 18 May 2015

Visiting Vincent

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I recently visited a museum in Amsterdam devoted to the art and life of Vincent Van Gogh: it's one of the best museums/art galleries...