Booktrust: July 2011
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Books and Beards at the Pop-Up Festival of Stories
Posted 14 July 2011 Last weekend I went along to Pop Up , a brand new festival of stories which took place in Coram's Fields in London on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July. Read 'Books and Beards at the Pop-Up...' -
Boundaries: How far is too far in teen fiction?
Posted 12 July 2011 Last week I went to an event organised by the Children's Book Circle in response to a now notorious article written by Meghan Cox Gurdon in The Wall Street Journal... Read 'Boundaries: How far is too far...' -
Wendy Cooling in conversation with Sharon Dogar, Ali Lewis...
Posted 7 July 2011 As debut author Jason Wallace and his editor Charlie Sheppard win the Branford Boase Award 2011 for Out of Shadows , we look back at a recent panel discussion with... Read 'Wendy Cooling in conversation with Sharon...' -
Stuart Allen on the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner
Posted 7 July 2011 My day at the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize started on a damp day in Derbyshire as I made my way to the station, so two hours later I arrived in... Read 'Stuart Allen on the Independent Foreign...' -
Stiegmatized: Scandinavian Crime Fiction after the deluge
Posted 7 July 2011 Sweden, says Håkan Nesser , can be any number of things depending on where you're viewing it from. If you're American it's all Ingmar Bergman, depressed people with failing marriages... Read 'Stiegmatized: Scandinavian Crime Fiction after the...' -
I tell stories about telling stories... they're not always...
Posted 6 July 2011 Along with a group of Year 8 pupils from Graveney School in South West London, I was lucky enough to go along to see author Philip Pullman at the Southbank... Read 'I tell stories about telling stories......'
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