The Independent’s books page has news of Random House finding an early copy of one of AA Milne’s detective stories written before Winnie the Pooh. The House has secret passages and is set in Hundred Acre wood. Winnie will never be the same again I fear. The reprint arrives in late autumn.
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A couple of weeks ago, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell sat down and chatted about the Edge Chronicles and the excellent Barnaby Grimes series.
Paul : I started it (Lord of the Rings) too late. I’m not a real fantasy afficionado really which is probably why the Edge is odd.
Chris: We’ve talked about this a […]
Scott Westerfeld’s next book is an alternate history set around Word War One and as part of research he got to to go on an airship. Not just an airship but a Zeppelin. Sigh.
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Atlantic Books will be publishing the new Neal Stephenson, Anathem (Amazon UK), in September which I’m hoping is going to give some answers as the nature of Enoch. How Root is he? What has Stephenson really been driving at since the awesome Cryptonomicon?
Synopsis from Amazon:
“Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a […]
BBC’s iPM, the personal version of the PM programme, had an interview with Steve Vander Ark about the court case (it should be on the podcast).
Having heard it, I’m in two minds whether he and RDR are naive or wilfully keeping their head in the sand. Firstly there is the issue of how the contributors […]
Scott Westerfeld recently took some time to talk about Extras and Midnighters. I’ll post the link to the Extras questions once they are online.
One of the things that struck me was that there’s a certain school rites of passage feel.
My Dad was a data processing guy in the 60s, he ended up working with Nasa […]
This year is the fifitieth anniversary of the death of Mervyn Peake, author, poet, dramatist and wonderful illustrator. His son, Sebastian, is talking about him at the Oxford Literary Festival on April 3rd at 7.30 in Christchurch College and kindly agreed to answer a few questions about his father’s work.
He will be talking about his […]
Interesting interview with Scott Westerfeld over on the Kaleb Nation blog, mainly about writing.
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Simon and Schuster’s Pulse imprint are having a blogfest with some of their authors from 14th to 23rd March. Holly Black is one of the authors.
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Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants (Amazon) is a fine novella published for the World Book Day and is a delightful little read though perhaps not his best children’s novella.
Odd is a strange child, and when his father is dies rescuing a pony, flees into the forest where he is woken up by some […]