Philip Ardagh
© Julian Anderson for Faber & Faber
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Philip Ardagh |
© Julian Anderson for Faber & Faber |
| Philip Ardagh writes everything from histories to horror stories - that's just the 'h's - and his books have been translated into nine different languages (10, if you count Latin). He lives with a wife and two cats in a seaside town in England, and loves walking along the beach, and combing his beard (though not necessarily at the same time). He looks a bit like Harold the jailer, asleep outside the dungeon in Bleak Tower. |
Philip Ardagh is probably best-known as the author of the best-selling
Eddie Dickens adventures, currently being developed by Warner
Brothers and the producers of The Matrix for a proposed series
of animated family feature films. He recently collaborated with Paul McCartney
and illustrator Geoff Dunbar on High In The Clouds, Sir Paul's
first children's book. Philip also regularly reviews children's books
for The Guardian, and occasionally crops up on Radio 4, for which
he has also written an afternoon story for adults and a children's drama
(in which he played himself and a pigeon on a ledge). He was a witness
for the defence of Alice in Wonderland in The Battle of the
Books for the BBC's The Big Read. He has a passion for history
and archaeology and has been described as "one of life's fact finders".
Philip Ardagh regularly appears at literary festivals throughout the British
Isles, and has written over seventy books which have been translated into
more than thirty languages. (Castle-lovers might like to try the paperback
Why Are Castles Castle-Shaped? 1001/2 Questions About Castles Answered,
published by Faber & Faber.) |
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