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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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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The Church Times: “CS Lewis’s Lofty Imagination”
“The Narnia books are a fusion of Lewis’s lifelong love of literature, his Christian faith, and the experiences of his own childhood: the latter most obviously in The Magician’s Nephew,…
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In the Telegraph: the magic of Narnia
“Narnia is a world rich in allusions not only to Christianity, but to ballads, fairy tales, medieval and renaissance literature, to Plato, Greek and Norse mythology, and to classic children’s…
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‘Spare Oom’: Video
Catch me in conversation with writer and critic Amanda Craig, talking about my new book ‘Spare Oom’ and all things Narnian! Buy ‘Spare Oom’ from all good book retailers, or…
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