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The Huffington Post: The Top 10 Types Of Terrible Names
My guest blog from The Huffington Post, 9 November 2009, published in connection with the publication of Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare (St Martin's Press), the US edition of Potty, Fartwell & Knob.
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Writing Non-fiction for Boys
I was commissioned to write this article for the Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (A&C Black). It is reproduced here by kind permission of the publishers. I hope that it may help would-be children’s writers – but I would also advise you to buy the book!
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The name calling that went beyond a joke
Article for the Daily Express. It is reproduced here by kind permission of the publishers.
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Some total nonsense: Russell Ash celebrates Edward Lear
Article from The Independent, 12 May 1994
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Metal Guru: The Nuts & Bolts of Meccano
This is adapted from an article I originally wrote in August 1989, at the time of a huge sale of Meccano at Christie’s in London, the contents of the former Meccano Museum in Johannesburg. The sale included many complete sets as well as dealers’ displays and completed models – a Mississippi Showboat, a five-foot tall model of Blackpool Tower complete with working lifts and lights and a gigantic Blocksetting Dockyard Crane. However, as I said at the time, I can’t imagine why anyone would want a Meccano model that someone else had made – where’s the fun, if your Dad can’t puff on his pipe and say “Well done!”?
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