Melvin Burgess
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Melvin Burgess is a British writer of children's and young adult fiction.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 25 April 1954, Twickenham, Middlesex (opens wiqqi.app)
- Novels: The Cry of the Wolf (1990); Junk (1996); Bloodtide (1999); Billy Elliot (2001 novelisation); Doing It (2003); Nicholas Dane (2009); The Hit (2013); Loki (2022) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Awards: Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for Junk (1996) (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Novels, being far cheaper to make than film or TV, allow a variety of experiment that other forms do not. (opens korrents.com)
“I always loved books because of the huge variety of different genres, styles, and forms people could do - novels being so much cheaper than film of TV, that they allow experimentation.”
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Substack seems better suited to articles and essays than to publishing novels. (opens korrents.com)
“Online seems one obvious answer, but maybe not Substack, which seems better suited to articles, essays and so on.”
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The Völsunga saga is the absolute classic of Norse mythology. (opens korrents.com)
“The Volsunga saga was one - that has to be the absolute classic of Norse mythology.”
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Novels, being far cheaper to make than film or TV, allow a variety of experiment that other forms do not. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Wind in the Willows (opens rcmnd.app)
“The very first one was The Wind in the Willows.”
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The Hobbit (opens rcmnd.app)
“Yes, I have always thought that The Hobbit was a better book than Lord of the Rings.”
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Heroes (opens rcmnd.app)
“I was reading Heroes recently, but you could pick any one of a number of his books.”
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The Wind in the Willows (opens rcmnd.app)