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How I Live Now Film News
I wasn’t the last to know, but I’ve been offline for two days, and came home to find a few hundred emails, many of them demanding to know whether it’s true that Saoirse* Ronan has been cast as Daisy in the film of How I Live Now. I’m not sure it’s 100% official yet, but [...]
Everyone’s a critic.
It’s Carnegie time again. Time to torture poor innocent children with books of so-called literary merit. Here’s a less than enthusiastic review from one of my teen-shadowers. Definitive proof that you can’t please all of the people all of the time. “Another year in the Carnegie Medal and once again another Meg Rosoff book. So [...]
Viragos and Living Dolls
Whenever anyone asks me about my favourite book, I um and ahh and eventually mutter something about Pride and Prejudice. But the real true answer is that my favourite book is not one, but hundreds — all the dark-green-bound books that make up the body of women’s writing published by Virago Press. At least ten years [...]
The Real Dogman
I’m back from Suffolk. Four days of relentless work and the draft is finished. OK, it wasn’t entirely relentless. I did a talk for the Woodbridge Oxfam bookshop (whence goes most of my royalties) which allowed me to sing the praises of the wonderful writer and poacher D Brian Plummer. I discovered Plummer by mistake [...]
Judging books by their covers
Having spent fifteen brief years in advertising, I should know a thing or two about graphic design. In fact, I always thought I had a fairly good eye for design — or at least knew precisely what I liked and what I didn’t. No more. Five years as a writer has completely scrambled my brain [...]
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