I was thrilled to be invited by the Folklore Society to give the annual Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture in November 2022, and I took for my theme the power of…
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From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my nine year-old self
"Intelligent, informed, brilliantly responsive and some of the best appreciative writing about Narnia I have ever come across. It is writerly rather than academic, and I had no difficulty in whipping delightedly through the whole thing. The best book ever about why we love Narnia!" Francis Spufford
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The Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture 2022
Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society: ‘From Spare Oom to War Drobe’ launch
An online launch for ‘Spare Oom’ with the Oxford CS Lewis Society. It was an honour and a great pleasure to be interviewed by Dr Michael Ward, author of ‘Planet…
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The Spectator: ‘Back in the magic land of Narnia’
Philip Womack’s review in The Spectator: “Katherine Langrish’s warm, perceptive new book, is a swift-moving read-through of the series with an informed, passionate friend. […] Langrish’s engagingly written summaries brought me…
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Recent Work
Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
Steel Thistles Press
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.'