Monthly Archives: November 2007
Reissuing classics
Missed this when it first came out but Julia Eccleshare has written a blog piece about Jane Nissens Books’ reissues of children’s fiction. I like the idea of reissuing older books and rediscovering potential gems (though would Gollancz kindly stop … Continue reading
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Gaiman’s Jerusalem on Radio Four extends Blake’s poem
Radio Four‘s Blake season carried on yesterday with a great story from Neil Gaiman, read by Alexander Morton (its only on the Net for seven days annoyingly), called Jerusalem. [Here's an online copy of the original.] The story is a … Continue reading
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Rudyard Kipling to have a museum
The BBC have an article about the house that Rudyard Kipling was born in being turned into a museum. It is also hoped to have a museum to his father, John Lockwood Kipling, who is well known in art and … Continue reading
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Judging a book by its cover?
Over at the Genre Files, Darren muses about faces on covers. The line he takes is that he doesn’t like them as it means that he can identify with the main character as, to some extent, himself. I actually quite … Continue reading
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Roberson’s Three Unbroken free on Solaris site
Those excellent folk over at Solaris have started publishing chapters from Chris Roberson‘s forthcoming novel, Three Unbroken, on their site for free. The actual paperbook will appear in 2009. I rated his last book from them highly and this looks … Continue reading
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Runemarks – Joanne Harris reviewed
Paul Raven, the fine Reviews Editor of Interzone, has just let me know that my review of Joanne Harris’s Runemarks has run on the T3 site.
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The wheel spins on the alethiometer – reviews of the Golden Compass
The alethiometer may tell us who is not telling the truth but it looks like a start of mixed bag reviews for the Golden Compass. The theme seems to be that the film world isn’t as rich narratively as the … Continue reading
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Poet of Innocence and Experience – Blake’s anniversary
BBC’s Radio Four are running a series of programmes about William Blake whose 250 anniversary is today. Michael Morpurgo’s story on Monday is a fantastic short story which takes the ideal of Blake and transposes it to a Palestinian shepherd … Continue reading
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Pullman hits out at nitwits
Just ahead of the premiere for the Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has hit out against Bill Donohoe, President of the league of North American Catholics, commenting in an interview with Newsweek “Why don’t we trust readers? Why don’t we trust … Continue reading
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Brian Aldiss on sf
Brian Aldiss has railed against the cultural great wall of China erected against sf in the Times (courtesy of SFCrowsnest). I wonder if we don’t partially erect the barrier ourselves though and perhaps secretly want it as readers? Isn’t it … Continue reading
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