Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 249 )

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Fourteen: Pancake Panic

  

  14th DecemberThe Latke who couldn’t stop screaming: a Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket with illustrations by Lisa Brown (McSweeny’s Books, 2007)A Screaming... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Thirteen: Partridges Etc

  

  13th DecemberTwelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence) by John Julius Norwich (illustrated by Quentin Blake) Atlantic Books 2010. First published by Doubleday i... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 BOOKS

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Twelve: Another Bear

  

  December 12thAlbert’s Christmas written by Alison Jezard and illustrated by Margaret Gordon, Puffin Books, 1978, 1986. First published by Victor Gollancz in... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Eleven: Life

  

  December 11thThe Christmas Life by Wendy Cope (taken from The Book of Christmas edited by Fiona Waters and mentioned in a previous post). This poem was... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Ten: Another Bear

  

  December 10th‘Christmas’ from More About Paddington by Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum (taken from The Adventures of Paddington, Collins, 1965,... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Nine: Pennies and Hats

  

  December 9th Christmas is Coming - a traditional Yuletide nursery rhyme (Anonymous). This is another verse taken from the children’s collection Read Me that I... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Eight: A Tiny Bear

  

  8th DecemberTiny Bear’s Christmas by Ebi N (Eberhard Naumann) Ragged Bears Ltd, 1991 Published originally as Pules WeihnachtsfestTiny Bear and his Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Seven: Little Women

  

  7th December‘Christmas with the March sisters’ an extract from Little Women (which was the subject of a previous post ) Louisa M AlcottLittle Women opens with... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Six: Three Ships

  

  6th DecemberI Saw Three Ships (Anonymous)I saw three shipsThis poem (which has also been set to music as a carol) features in a collection entitled Read Me: A... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Five: Updated Dickens

  

  5th DecemberMrs Scrooge: A Christmas Tale by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Posy Simmonds (Picador, 2009)Mrs Scrooge and a rather jolly ghostA fresh spin on a... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Four: More Food

  

  4th DecemberMincemeat, a poem by Elizabeth GouldFull of Christmas CheerThis poem is another extract from The Book of Christmas, mentioned on the 2nd December an... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Three: Letters

  

  3rd DecemberThe Father Christmas Letters by JRR Tolkien, edited by Baillie Tolkien (George Allen Unwin Ltd, 1976). I have had this book for many years,... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day Two: Pudding

  

  2nd December A rather rotund pudding…Pudding Charms, a seasonal poem by Charlotte Druitt ColeI found this poem in a children’s poetry collection The Book of... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Advent Calendar Day One: Dickens

  

  1st DecemberChristmas with Dickens A Christmas Treeby Charles Dickensillustrated by HM Brock (Guild Publishing 1969, 1986)What better way to begin our Advent... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 BOOKS

• Christmas on the Landing: An Advent Announcement

  

  It can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention that we are edging ever closer to a certain celebratory time of the year, though I refuse to pay too much attentio... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Treasure in the In-Tray: Ghost Light

  

  As anyone who follows me on Twitter will be aware, this week I unearthed Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light (Harvill Secker 2010) from my in-tray where it has been... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Review: "The Go-Between" by L.P.Hartley

  

  I said that I would return to the topic of The Go-Between and so I have (with a certain amount of delay admittedly). I enjoyed the novel a great deal, which is... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Interview: Paul Anthony Shortt Author of ‘Locked Within’

  

  The Author…Now as promised last week, here are the answers to a few questions that I put to first time author Paul on the publication of his urban fantasy,... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Advance Notice of a Landing Guest: Paul Anthony Shortt

  

  Next week (on the 15th November to be precise), I will be entertaining a second guest on my literary landing. Paul Anthony Shortt will be submitting himself to ... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Another Landing ‘quick post’:For Anyone Who Has Been Wond...

  Another Landing ‘quick post’:For anyone who has been wondering whether I will ever finish reading the Landing Eight pile, I would like to announce that finally ... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE