Padmini

Padmini asked Jonathan Stroud:

I love your alternate versions of London, both in the Bartimaeus books and in Lockwood & Co. Are there real places that inspired the fantasy London? That is, if I ever visit the UK, are there places where I could feel like I was in Nathaniel's or Lockwood's world?

Jonathan Stroud Ooh, lots of them. If you stroll around Westminster, Trafalgar Square and maybe head up to the British Museum, you'll see the places that inspired some of the big episodes in the Bart books. You can see streets very like Lockwood's Portland Row if you go wandering in Marylebone... But London has many faces: whichever way you go, you'll find something worth seeing!

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Marion

Marion asked Jonathan Stroud:

Hello. Do you already know how many books you want the Lockwood & Co series to be? Or is it more a case of "I'll write books about those characters as long as I have adventures for them"?

Mninc

Mninc asked Jonathan Stroud:

Do you have any plans on continuing the Bartimaeus series?

Keian

Keian asked Jonathan Stroud:

My friends and I have been discussing, and have come to the conclusion that the hollow boy is no ghost, but Anthony Lockwood himself. If this is true, did you know from the moment you started the series that Lockwood would be a "hollow boy?" Is that why he seems so detached at points in the books?

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