Cry freedom!
It is getting on for fifty years since Sam Youd decided to try his hand at ‘young fiction’. In 1966, as he himself recalls: [My agent] David Higham came to me with a proposition. Richard...
Category: John Christopher
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...
