So, some few of you may have noticed a certain silence descended over my blog for a while about what I’m actually doing with my life… besides, that is, writing… And one or two may have noticed that for a period of roughly 12 hours, a blog entry did appear explaining what I was doing, …
Monthly Archive: July 2010
Jul
16
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Jul
09
The Further Adventures of Horatio Lyle
Did I mention I have a pseudonym? Oh yes, Kate Griffin is not my real name… however, since my real name is hardly a state secret, being fairly easily accessible on this website, I’ll keep this brief and say hello! As Catherine Webb I write books for kids and young adults and as this is …
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Jul
09
North-South Divide
Someone once defined ‘nationalism’ as a state of not-being. I am English because I am not French, I am Scottish because I am not, oh but so very much not English and so on and so forth. While as definitions go it leaves a certain something to be desired, it does seem that a lot …
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Jul
07
Why History?
So, I got asked a few days ago – and I get this now and then – how I ended up going from studying history, to doing technical theatre, via writing fantasy books. And I give a variation on the same basic answer – history rocks! First up, the history-technical theatre link. Okay, simply put, …
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Jul
06
Travelcard Crazy
I walk everywhere. But once in a very blue moon I find myself the proud owner of a day travelcard, zones 1-4, and I go just a little bit travelcard crazy… In the world of urban magic, this is a genuine medical problem. Magic long since passed the point where a griffon’s feather was a …
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Jul
05
In Praise of Neil Gaiman
This was going to be a very long blog entry about Neil Gaiman. It was going to go off on a great sweep, covering Sandman (greatest graphic novel I’ve ever read and, in fact, the graphic novel that convinced me that it wasn’t that shameful to be caught in that particular section anyway, despite being …
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Jul
02
Blackout
There’s a thing at the end of the alley. It’s watching you. Grafitti, Soho – source unknown.
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Jul
02
My Local Library
Okay, so this is probably my most tragic blog entry ever, but I gotta say, since I’m passing through… I love my local library. Actually, that’s not strictly accurate. I love a wide range of local libraries, and currently hold membership cards for at least three boroughs in London, not including the University of London …
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