The minds God gave them
‘It was Father Green, a young fellow not ten years older than myself, who counselled me. He told me to have a good look at the world, before I gave it up. There was a...
Category: John Christopher
The White Voyage
As The Independent’s Invisible Ink article put it, was there ever an author with so many pseudonyms?
With its third publication, The SYLE Press turns its attention from the Hilary Ford novels to those of John Christopher.
The White Voyage
Dublin to Dieppe to Amsterdam. A routine trip for the cargo ship Kreya, her Danish crew and handful of passengers. Brief enough for undercurrents to remain below the surface and secrets to stay buried…
John Christopher is coming!
As The Independent’s Invisible Ink article put it, was there ever an author with so many pseudonyms? With its third publication, The SYLE Press turns its attention from the Hilary Ford novels to those of...
On a knife-edge
Jane had been there before – or rather, Cynthia. In John Christopher’s The Caves of Night, after a caving accident, she finds herself clinging on to the edge of an abyss, with the weight of...
Why I wrote THE LOTUS CAVES – Part 2
John Christopher (also the author of SARNIA and A BRIDE FOR BEDIVERE) resumes his account of the writing of THE LOTUS CAVES. First published in 1969, republished on November 4th this year by Simon &...
Why I wrote THE LOTUS CAVES – Part 1
In 1971, two years after its publication, John Christopher (alias Hilary Ford, alias Sam Youd) published an article in the children’s magazine ‘Puffin Post’ to explain his reasons for writing THE LOTUS CAVES — recently...
Classics of their genre!
John Christopher’s science-fiction novels for young adults, in particular the Tripods series, have long been considered classics of their genre. In recognition of their ongoing appeal, Simon & Schuster, who have published the Tripods books...
Forget Winning the Hunger Games!
The internet magazine Wired recently published an article which compared The Tripods by John Christopher (also known as Hilary Ford, also known as Sam Youd) with the Harry Potter books and The Hunger Games.
‘More earthy and meaty than Doctor Who’
The broadcaster and journalist, Ray Gosling, who died last year, reviewing a John Christopher novel, The Sword of the Spirits: The question, in a story for children, is how do you keep as modern as...