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Sound Bites
Puffins, apparently, live more or less forever — or at least for 70 years. And they like a (noisy) party. So it was great to have all those friends and relations out in force to celebrate the birthday — Eoin Colfer, Cathy Cassidy, Jeanne Willis, Lauren Child, Cressida Cowell, Morris Gleitzman, Kevin Brooks, Charlie Higson…and [...]
Oxford, Ho!
Given my inability to recite a single line of Paradise Lost, I doubt they’d let me anywhere near their English department, but I do love the literary festival. Probably because I’ve had some of my best audiences there — must be something in the drinking water. And this year will be better than ever because [...]
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