Yatterings

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.

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 book world, something that I think was always going to be the case.
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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 boy.
Blake’s one of those figures who appears in background, sort of like the Velvet Underground. [...]