My new book ‘From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my nine year-old self’ is out soon! Register for the online launch where I’ll be talking about…
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From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my nine year-old self
"Those of us who have visited Narnia through the books so often that we could recite our favourite moments and sentences, might not think that there is anything new waiting for us. Katherine Langrish … takes us around a place we thought we knew and makes it finer and more interesting than it was before.” - Neil Gaiman
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‘Spare Oom’ Book Launch Friday 7th May

The Strength of Fairy Tale Heroines
It would be astonishing if the thousands of traditional tales told across Europe didn’t include characters who could appeal to and satisfy the desire of women as well as men…
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Coming of Age as a Viking: Historical Children’s Books and Gender
“The culture was gradually changing. Geoffrey Trease usually teamed his heroes with an adventurous girl, and Rosemary Sutcliff sometimes threw in a significant female character, like the fierce child Regina in ‘Dawn Wind’ – but the default option for historical children’s fiction remained male, and it sometimes seemed as if the most exciting thing to happen to a girl in all of history had been when Flora MacDonald rowed Bonnie Prince Charlie over the sea to Skye. You couldn’t have adventures in a skirt.”
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Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
A collection of my essays on fairy tales and folklore. The title is borrowed from an Irish fairy tale in which the hero gallops his pony over ‘seven miles of hill on fire, and seven miles of steel thistles, and seven miles of sea.’
The Weirdstone of Talybont
'I was in South Wales, standing on a real hill with a real stone in my hand, imaginatively inhabiting a children’s book I read for the first time in 1965, which has stayed with me ever since.'