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Morrall, Clare

Clare Morrall’s first published novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour (2003), was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Her second novel was Natural Flights of the Human Mind, published in 2006, and this was followed by The Language of Others (2008). She has since published The Man Who Disappeared (2010), The Roundabout Man (2012), After the Bombing (2014) and When the Floods Came (2016).

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20200301173553 Clare Morrall on the Ladybird books of nursery rhymes

Time for Rhyme

Clare Morrall on the Ladybird books of nursery rhymes

There’s a picture in The Third Ladybird Book of Nursery Rhymes of a small, nervous boy in knickerbockers appearing before a man of authority: ‘I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,/ The reason why, I cannot tell./ But this I know and know full well,/ I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.’ It’s a curious little thing, but somehow very pleasing. It rhymes, there’s a clear, easy rhythm behind the words and we’re familiar with the sentiment. In short, it’s a typical nursery rhyme.
20050601123059 Biggles Delivers the Goods - Clare Morrall on the Biggles books - Slightly Foxed Issue 6

A Modest Superhero

Clare Morrall on Captain W. E. Johns, the Biggles books

I can’t remember the moment when I decided to allow Biggles some space in my new novel, but I imagine he just turned up one day, demanding attention. An ingrained loyalty to past escapism meant that I had to take him seriously. There’s an inner store in my mind, a bag of glittery details that I’ve accumulated over the years. Biggles was probably sitting waiting for the opportunity and jumped out when I was rummaging around for something else.

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