Harry Potter

We are delighted to share with you a guest post from Stephen Hunt, author of the forthcoming Foul Tide’s Turning (in bookshops and online Thursday) about . . . well, getting away with ficitonal murder. Are any characters safe? Stephen Hunt discusses the problem of whether to kill or not kill your fictional characters.  One […]

The Jones Family from the Indiana Jones series Who knows whether this counts as family – or even whether it should – but I’m taking it anyway: Indiana Jones and his father, Henry Jones, Sr. Everywhere Indy is brash and irresponsible, his dad is measured and controlled. But, as it turns out, they’re both fundamentally the same: […]

I was half an hour late to work this morning. Nothing wrong with the trains (well, nothing more than usual), no tradesmen to let in, no alarm-clock-failing-to-go-off. I was late because I wanted to drop Bilbo Baggins and Belle (from Beauty and the Beast) off at school this morning for World Book Day. OK, I’m […]