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We filmed those scenes at the end of the shoot. They knew each other’s performances well by then.

It was a long-ago typo that should have been caught in 1989 but wasn’t. (Before Pepper was a girl called Pepper she was a boy called Ginger. And Zingiber is L […]

It’s an adaptation (by the brilliant P. Craig Russell) of the book, Norse Mythology, by me, based on the Prose and Poetic Eddas by Snorri Sturluson.

He sang it all himself. You can hear more in Act 3, The Song of Orpheus… and let me find out for you.

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thelogbook:‘Illustrations for Lost Fairytales’ which I drew years ago. They led onto the adventures in my new book, ‘The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Prince […]

The double Pulitzer winner turns to crime with a tale of 1960s New York gangsters, rendered with superbly observed, affectionate, page-turning brioFor more than 20 […]

The Spook School by Nick Mamatas in Nightmare Melissa flies to Glasgow, her husband’s hometown and maybe it’s the long sleepless flight, or something else, but […]

Zhou Xun and Sander Gilman show how fear and poor terminology have fuelled racial prejudice during the pandemicIt’s not surprising that Covid-19 has made people a […]

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Nobody will ever have made the thing you made. And you learn how to do it by sounding like other people anyway. Just do it, and don’t worry. It may take a long t […]

It’s mostly because of Tumblr. For my first 8 years on Tumblr you couldn’t tag answers, so I didn’t. And then you could tag answers but by that time I’d got use […]

That makes me really happy. I’ve been thrilled by the number of Scandinavian people and places (like museums) who liked and appreciated what I did in Norse Mythology.

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From George Orwell to Daphne du Maurier, the books that made a decade span village detectives, Edwardian butlers and Bright Young ThingsBeing asked to curate a […]

In this Booker-shortlisted story of a father and his neurodivergent son battling the harm we are doing our planet, fiction is swamped by didacticismRichard […]

Content deal over author of children’s classics such as Matilda and The BFG is firm’s biggest to dateNetflix has acquired the works of Roald Dahl, the author of […]

With her naughty stories and cutting remarks, the comic actor spares no blushes – but her account is poignant tooI’m quite sure you picked up this book hoping I’d […]

Magnum PI Magnum PI seems to have found its niche. And probably just as well with covid and a short and intermittent season. They get a case, it turns out to be […]

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Eyes of the Forest. April Henry. 2021. [April] 272 pages. [Source: Review copy]First sentence: The gun looked real. No orange tip, no obvious seams where molded […]

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The heart-rending final act of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses saga, green-fingered teenagers and the spark for a new Netflix film work their magicOne of t […]

 Monster Of The Week 90 is Candlewife, so the wax merchant couldn’t find a partner, this went predictably wrong (arson, death etc), Candlewife has done their time […]

Christian Dior’s younger sister is a largely ghostly presence in this nonetheless enjoyable book about the courageous Nazi-fighting florist Postwar Europe is e […]