Author Scores a Big Hit in Liverpool ; Laura Davis Talks to Mal Peet About His Award-Winning Novel Which Is This Year's Liverpool Reads
Daily Post › February 20, 2008
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EXPERIENCED explorers who have conquered the frozen slopes of the Himalayas or dived to the bottom of the ocean, where no daylight has ever reached, would still be enthralled by the depths of a writer's sub-conscious.
There, beneath the mental postit notes to file the tax return and buy more washing up liquid, grubby orphans work up the courage to beg for a second helping of tasteless gruel and knights of yore plunge glinting spears into the soft flesh behind a dragon's scales.See the full content of this document
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Author Scores a Big Hit in Liverpool ; Laura Davis Talks to Mal Peet About His Award-Winning Novel Which Is This Year's Liverpool Reads
Mal Peet's mind is typically cluttered - characters from the books he has already had published mingle with the ones he has yet to write and then there are those, written by others, he is in the middle of reading. All that on top of the bills to pay and his up- coming visit to Liverpool.
"I'm just slightly scared about standing up and talking to a whole host of sceptical Scousers," confesses the author of the city's official novel for 2008 - well, two nove...See the full content of this document
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