Posts tagged 'Humour'

Roald's Dahl-ights
Posted 13 September 2012 by Nikesh Shukla Celebrating Roald Dahl Day (13 September), Nikesh asks the Booktrust staff about their favourite books by the legendary author Read 'Roald's Dahl-ights '
'Other Words for Funny': Will Self, Kafka, and the...
Posted 26 July 2012 by Pete Mitchell Will Self, not for the first time in his long and storied career, is not amused. He's at City University, talking about Kafka's Metamorphosis, and poor Gregor Samsa running all... Read ''Other Words for Funny': Will Self,...'
Books of the year 2011
Posted 16 December 2011 by Nikesh Shukla I've been trying to do a filtered keyword search in my brain for the overriding themes affecting novelists in 2011 and I'm coming up with nothing. For all the snobbery... Read 'Books of the year 2011 '
John McLay: Diary of a Wimpy Kid event
Posted 21 November 2011 by Guest blogger I’m really excited about Jeff Kinney’s sixth Wimpy Kid novel, Cabin Fever, publishing this month which will be one of the biggest books of the year across all of children’s... Read 'John McLay: Diary of a Wimpy...'
Pete Johnson: To blog or not to blog
Posted 31 October 2011 by Guest blogger 'I don't do any of it,' declared Gary Oldman in a recent interview. 'I don't blog or tweet and I'm not on Facebook.' He sounded wonderfully defiant and I wonder... Read 'Pete Johnson: To blog or not...'
Janet Foxley: Muncle Trogg
Posted 27 January 2011 by Guest blogger I don't know where the character of Muncle Trogg came from. All my stories start with a vision in my head of a character in a setting, and in the... Read 'Janet Foxley: Muncle Trogg '