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Best-selling writer Philip Pullman is following the popular His Dark Materials trilogy by creating new, darker versions of the Brothers Grimm tales that have become well-known through Walt Disney films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

The children's author Philip Pullman is narrating a new audio tour at Oxford's Botanic Gardens.

IN THE last chapter of Philip Pullman's award-winning novel The Amber Spyglass, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry promise to meet on a bench in Oxford's Botanic Garden at Midsummer's Day each year.

Philip Pullman will retell 50 of his favourite Grimm tales - some of them deliciously creepy - in 'clear as water' new versions.

'I got a third at Oxford. They'd stopped giving fourths, or I'd have got one of those'

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Oxford author Philip Pullman last night gave the scheme a cautious welcome. The His Dark Materials author said: 'If it means more books are available to more people then I think that's a good thing.'

Philip Pullman and Stephen Fry are to judge this year's Dundee International Book Prize, which at

The final appeal to supreme court against halving the London borough's libraries provision will not be heard. Backed by literary names including Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Zadie Smith and Alan Bennett, Brent residents have been campaigning for more than a year to save six local libraries.

Novelist Philip Pullman, author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy among other books, owns a Kindle and allows that it may signal "we're on the cusp of a revolution as great as Gutenberg's, but then maybe we're not."