…although I would rather we call it The Seven Dwarfs And Snow White here. Needless to say, this is one of the fairy tale heavyweights. Whole libraries have been written about it, which makes even typing this sentence daunting. You only have to enter Snow White into Wikipedia to get a sense of how many …
Sallim Publishing have just released their translation of The Girl with Glass Feet in South Korea, and they’ve done an absolutely beautiful job of the book. Here it is on their site, and below a copy of the cover. You can also get a feel of what the book looks like here. In other …
I’m delighted to be able to say that The Girl with Glass Feet has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2009. You can read all the shortlists for all the categories here and you can also listen to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row round-up here.
I’d hoped to write something about Second World War poet Keith Douglas yesterday, since it was the eleventh of November, but today will have to do instead. Besides, I’m sure I’ll mention him on a hundred more blog posts, because he’s such an enormous inspiration. A few times people have asked me what my influences were when …
Just a reminder that this Wednesday evening I’ll be appearing at Blackwell Broad Street in Oxford alongside Samantha Harvey, James Miller and Poppy Adams to talk about our books and writing in general. Details are here (you’ll need to scroll down to the Oxford section).