Watership Down Cover Art Richard Adams’ first novel Watership Down was published in 1972 by the publisher Rex Collings in a rather sweet, but monochrome cover (above). The novel had been rejected by several publishers, but after publication went on to win the Carnegie Medal amongst many other awards. Thinking about Easter bunnies, I made Read More
Tag: Rabbits
PFD Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlist – Julianne Pachico
The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pachico I’m finally finding my feet with short stories after decades of not really getting them; collections like The Lucky Ones are responsible for this change of heart, for the stories within these covers are stunningly good. Pachico was born in Cambridge, but grew up in Colombia, and that is Read More
“More rabbit than Sainsburys”*…
Fluffy by Simone Lia You might think that a comic about a little bunny rabbit who thinks a chap called Michael is his father is going to be a piece of fluff. Well, you’d be wrong! Simone Lia was going to be a children’s illustrator, but she met Tom Gauld (whose graphic novel Mooncop I Read More
