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Celia's diary: April 2013
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Thursday, 18 April 2013. The Summerhall Historical Fiction Festival. I am in historical Edinburgh, in a historical building that used to house Edinburgh University's. Veterinary School. I'm writing this in a rather handsome cafe, like a certain other writer in Edinburgh. That's where the similarities between us end. History can be fun! I've planned for a bit of both. Years of experience have taught me to take a belt and braces approach. Things a...
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Celia's diary: August 2010
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Monday, 23 August 2010. Where does the summer go? Every July, I go to this place, Charney Manor, in Oxfordshire on a kind of writers' retreat/re-charge with fellow members of the Scattered Authors' Society. For me, this marks the beginning of the 'Summer Holidays', except they are often not holidays at all. Last year I was working on re-writes for. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. Amanda Craig, autho...
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Celia's diary: World Book Day
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Monday, 4 March 2013. Thursday, March 7th is World Book Day. This year, I will be at the Mount School in York doing a day of talks and workshops. On Tuesday, 5th March, I will be at King Edward VI, Handsworth, who are having their WBD two days before because I can't be in two places at once. I visited King Edward's, Handsworth last year for a day based around my book Pirates! If ever a book leant itself to World Book Day, it is this one. Panels,...
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Celia Rees – links
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An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. Celia Rees websites and pages. Celia's fan page on Facebook. Bloomsbury’s Celia Rees website which includes a Pirates! Mini site, Witch Child website. And information about Sorceress. Allen and Unwin’s author page on Celia Rees. Includes answers to questions about writing. British Council’s contemporary writers page. A great new interview. With Celia by The English Association. Celia’s recommended sites for writers and readers. A useful and wide-ranging book review site.
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Celia's diary: March 2011
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A weblog written by Celia with news, reviews and much more. Wednesday, 23 March 2011. Der Narr und das Madchen. Is the title of. In German. Last week I was on what the Germans term a Reading Tour, going to various schools and venues reading from and talking about my book. I gave up German when I was thirteen, or rather it gave up on me, so it was a good thing that all the groups I met spoke excellent English. According to legend, the alchemist, Dr Faust, rode a wine barrel from the cellar to the street w...
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Elizabeth Hopkinson's Hidden Grove : January 2015
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Elizabeth Hopkinson's Hidden Grove. Historical fantasy author Elizabeth Hopkinson blogs on history, fairy tale and the arts. A well-crafted and imaginative debut novel, with strong world building and an engaging story. Juliet Marillier. Saturday, 24 January 2015. In December, I wrote a blog about The Box of Delights. How could I make it as magical as the box Cole Hawlings gives to Kay Harker? What if I turned it into my own miniature cabinet of curiosities? By Joan Fontcuberta. The artist has created...
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A fool on a hill...: August 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Saturday, 29 August 2015. The Century Trilogy, by Ken Follett. First up, apologies for not having posted for such a long time. It's been a busy few weeks - particularly the bit where we had two nine year olds to stay! With not much time or head-space for writing blogs. The boxed set. (See how big they are? And there are a lot. What Follett does is to use the fortunes of these families as a vehicle for nothing less than relating the entire histo...
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A fool on a hill...: June 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Monday, 22 June 2015. Congratulations to Tanya Landman, winner of the 2015 Carnegie Medal! The Carnegie Medal is the big one for writers of children's books - the one we'd all like to win. (Well, we'd like to win any prize - but this one would be the cherry on anyone's cake! Tanya Landman earlier today at the Carnegie presentation. But to return to the book - I reviewed it not long after it first came out, and you can see that review here.
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A fool on a hill...: February 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. Just a word first about that term, junior novels. They're sometimes called 'middle-grade' novels, and they are - very approximately - intended for 9-12 year olds. (Many of them could be, and are, enjoyed equally by adults - don't dismiss books because they happen to be on the children's shelves in the bookshop! And 'Young Adult' books even more so.). Fairy-tales do sometimes come true - don't they? This book is a ve...
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A fool on a hill...: January 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Friday, 23 January 2015. Trouble on Cable Street, by Joan Lingard. Anyone who was teaching English in the late 70s/early 80s - and probably after that - will remember the name of Joan Lingard. She wrote Across the Barricades. Concerns Isabella, whose mother is Spanish. She has two brothers. One has chosen to fight in the Spanish Civil War for the Republicans: the other, by contrast, is attracted by Oswald Mosley's increasingly powerful ...And a...
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