A few useful websites on Pullman

There’s stacks of stuff on His Dark Materials on the web. What I’ve realised during my research is that a lot of it is recycled endlessly round loads of sites – including mistakes. Some of the stuff around is innacurate or poorly thought out, some just trivial. And some is fabulous! These are a few [...]

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More on the book

Here’s an outline of what the book will include:

Part 1: Chapters about Philip Pullman, the influences on him, etc., and chapters about the three volumes of His Dark Materials.

Part 2: Chapters about the big philosophical and theological themes which Pullman explores.

Since it’s a ‘thinking fan’s guide’ it will be both enthusiastic about the trilogy and [...]

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Philip Pullman book

True to my word, here I am telling you a little about the book I’m writing on Pullman. The focus, of course, will be on his magnum opus, His Dark Materials. It will be the second in a series of ‘thinking fan’s guides’ from Damaris Publishing. I was a contributor to the first book, Matrix [...]

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Slow start to blogging

Oh dear, I set this blog up a while ago but haven’t done anything with it at all yet. Most of my time is spent writing my book on Philip Pullman. I’ll tell you about it one day!

I came across some fun puns earlier, including a category of puns which I was well aware of [...]

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