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"We're Going on a Bear Hunt" author to headline at Festival of Words
19 Apr 2024 08:25 GMT
… would be discussing his new book, Getting Better, released this … 1998, and has published around 200 books for children and adults … , including The Sad Book, We’re Going on … guests Dame Sheila Hancock, Michael Morpurgo and Simon Armitage delighting sold …
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Lynne Reid Banks remembered by Michael Morpurgo
08 Apr 2024 10:28 GMT
It is quite rare to find a writer like Lynne Reid Banks, who tries so many different subjects, and so many different ways of writing. The author of The L-Shaped Room and The Indian in the Cupboard, who died on Thursday aged 94, was a writer I admired and …
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Nicola Baker publishes her debut book to spark passion for farming
04 Apr 2024 14:31 GMT
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Our Farm … Durham hills.
The physiotherapist-turned-author said that positive feedback from … life have inspired her to publish the book.
Mrs Baker’s debut … by Dick King Smith and Michael Morpurgo”.
Mrs and Mr Baker own …
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Xilam Retools ‘Lucy Lost’ as Feature, Adapting ‘War Horse’ Author Michael Morpurgo, Shares First Look (EXCLUSIVE)
05 Mar 2024 09:37 GMT
… adapted from “War Horse” author Michael Morpurgo’s 2014 novel “Listen to the Moon … thriller based on a graphic novel from “Snowpiercer” creator Jean Marc …
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Queen Camilla says pick up a book! Royal endorses research which says five minutes of reading a day is valuable to health as she poses with top authors, Helena Bonham-Carter and Joanna Lumely
26 Mar 2024 21:27 GMT
… authors Philippa Gregory, Sir Michael Morpurgo, Bernadine Evaristo and Harlan … book in his hand.
'It was by his favourite author … gentlemen – our love of books. Thank you for helping to … very authentic place.'
Author Ken Follett said: 'Reading …
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UK author Michael Morpurgo on why he hated Steven Spielberg’s War Horse
02 Feb 2024 11:20 GMT
PARIS – British children’s author Michael Morpurgo finally has a film adaptation … his beloved World War I novel, which starred English actor Jeremy … captured the spirit of his books, he said.
Spielberg’s … to me, better than the book,” said Morpurgo. “It’s …
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Michael Morpurgo on refugees, trauma and why he hated Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’
02 Feb 2024 10:21 GMT
Children’s author Michael Morpurgo finally has a film adaptation … his beloved World War I novel.
“They’re all fine, aristocratic … captured the spirit of his books, he said.
Spielberg’s … , to me, better than the book,” said Morpurgo.
“It’s extraordinarily …
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Sir Michael Morpurgo: ‘Anne Frank’s Diary was her living testimony. And it lives on today’
22 Jan 2024 18:15 GMT
… screen adaptation of his 1990 book Waiting for Anya
For instance … me perhaps my most important book. By this time I … too, a writer – and what books she might have written had … in full with the author’s permission.
Sir Michael Morpurgo, author, poet and former …
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Michael Morpurgo uses Holocaust address to call for hope and peace
22 Jan 2024 12:04 GMT
Children’s author Michael Morpurgo has called on Israelis and …
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Our area’s leading authors reveal which books inspired them There’s nothing quite like curling up with a good book – and these leading Lincolnshire authors tell us which ones inspired them.
07 Mar 2024 06:24 GMT
… Michael Morpurgo
Hannah GoldChildren’s author Hannah – winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book … . Her second novel Love at First Knight is published next month. Heer …