As a part of the 2007 BBC Television series “The Edwardians, the Birth of Now”, I wrote the script for, and played the title role in this drama documentary. (Photograph by Rolf Marriot.)
Produced and directed by Andrew Hutton, the show explored the life and works of the writer H. H. Munro, whose pen-
In the photo on the left, Andrew Hutton talks to Spike in the background, while in fore-
ground are me and Liz Loach (Art Dept). Right: Munro awaits action.
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF SAKI
THREE VERY DIFFERENT BOOKS
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“Out of His Mind” is a 1996 comedy about characters from a fantasy novel who escape from their creator’s imagination into the real world. “Lowlake” is a fairly traditional ghost story. I’d wanted to set it in the 1950’s, but my editor at Scholastic thought kids wanted ‘now’, not ‘yesterday’. The central character is a girl, and originally the story opened with her as an adult looking back on her youth. As for “Pieces of the Game”, I’m not sure many people got past the dull cover. Inside is an exciting tale of two young people who go on a search for their father, who leaves home one day and does not return. Incidentally, “Out of His Mind” is another work that suffers from incomprehensible blurb. I defy anyone to make head or tail of it. Where do these people come from?
When writing to literati
Be trenchant and terribly arty,
Then, if you look,
You’ll be in a book
All high-
Letters to Literati
The widely-
I also worked for Alasdair on his film “The Library of Burned Books” which was nominated for the Student Academy Awards 2013 in the Foreign Film Category.
Still from “The Library of Burned Books”
“They are burning books in the school, but the headmaster tries to keep the magic of storytelling alive for one girl. Featuring Timothy Block, Jessie Wills-
As with “The Library of Burned Books”, I came on board the Nelly Cootalot video game through the good offices of Liam Creighton, a film maker with a wonderfully varied list of credits, talents and accomplishments. For Nelly he was voice co-
Released in 2016, ‘NELLY COOTALOT, THE FOWL FLEET’ is a traditional point and click adventure -
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