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A bit about Neil…
• Born in Portchester in 1960. Now lives in the USA.• First book – Duran Duran Biography!• “Literary Rock Star”• Nearly 2 Million Followers on Twitter (@neilhimself)
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Three Authors in One
1. Children/YA Novelist2. Novelist for adults3. Graphic novelist
Also writes short stories and written for TV/film, including two recent Doctor Who episodes…
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Books for the young
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.” – The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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• The one with the ‘buttons for eyes’
• Unknown merges with the known
• A twisted (but hopeful) fairy tale – GK Chesterton epigraph at start of novel
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• The Jungle Book as reimagined by Neil Gaiman• Union of the Natural and the Supernatural – Danse
Macabre
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Adult Novels
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• His ‘Great American Novel’• America’s troubled reality• A plethora of mythologies
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• A dark ‘fairy tale for grown ups’• Uses classic fairy tale tropes• Victorian setting
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Graphic Novels
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* In my opinion
His Masterpiece*
* - In my opinion
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The Endless
DestinyDeathDreamDestructionDesireDespairDelirium (formerly Delight)
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Illusion and Allusion
A few examples…
• A Dream of a Thousand Cats –Plato’s Parable of the Cave• A Midsummer Night’s Dream• The Furies
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Neil in a Nutshell
“Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.”
Clive Barker