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Frank Cottrell-Boyce

July 2024

  • Kensuke’s Kingdom

    Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure

    Morpurgo’s yarn about a kid on a round the world voyage is adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and attractively packaged as a family-friendly animation
  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

    • The Guardian view on Frank Cottrell-Boyce as children’s laureate: a timely champion

    • ‘Reading’s in danger’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce on books, kids – and the explosive power of Heidi

    • Frank Cottrell-Boyce chosen as new children’s laureate

July 2023

  • Frank Cottrell Boyce

    The Q&A
    Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘How often do you have sex? Did you really ask Desmond Tutu this question?’

    The writer on being lost for words with the king of Norway, throttling turkeys and what happens after we die (spoiler alert)

May 2023

  • Drag queen Lavinia Co-op

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Revolutionary Letters; A Living Leg-End; Today in History With the Retrospectors and more – review

    Shoutouts for single documentaries and their makers, a daily dose of history, desert island children’s books – plus the big winners at this year’s audio Oscars

May 2022

  • liverpool on page

    A local's guide
    Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s guide to Liverpool: ‘Make sure you see the city from the Mersey’

    The children’s novelist and screenwriter on pubs, green spaces, childhood memories and those ubiquitous watery views

February 2022

  • Absolute Radio Natalie. Natalie Cole on Absolute Radio

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Siege; Archive on 4: Wonderlands; Backlisted; Headwaters; Absolute Radio Natalie

    A new Radio 4 thriller electrified; Frank Cottrell-Boyce made a compelling case for children’s books; and a charming listener got to run her own station for the day

August 2021

  • Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

    Books that made me
    Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘I read Adrian Mole every year, it gets funnier each time’

    The author and screenwriter on why Lord of the Flies is overrated, and the most beautiful words ever written

January 2021

  • ‘The moment that British society and culture changed for ever’ ... Johnny Rotten, left, and Steve Jones in 1978.

    Danny Boyle to direct Sex Pistols TV drama based on Steve Jones' memoir

    Co-written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, six-part series Pistol to star Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan and Babyteeth’s Toby Wallace as Jones

October 2019

  • Ribeira Square at Porto by Douro River, Portugal

    Dear Europe: letters from JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Mary Beard and more

    From Paris to Berlin, fado to football, boat trains to pen friends … public figures reflect on their lifelong relationship with Europe

June 2019

  • Alice Lowe, Bill Nighy and Sam Riley in Sometimes Always Never.

    Sometime Always Never review – a triple-word score of a movie

    Bill Nighy is a Scrabble-obsessed father grieving for a missing son

March 2018

  • Ken Dodd in 2016

    'Non-stop gagster and comedy scientist': Paul O’Grady, Alan Davies and Frank Cottrell Boyce on Ken Dodd

    Paul O’Grady’s family cheered him outside court. Alan Davies couldn’t get a word in over lunch. And he got Frank Cottrell Boyce by the chuckle muscle. Stars remember the brilliantly bizarre comedian

November 2017

  • Chris Riddell’s illustration for the Alt-Write anthology

    Leading writers donate work to crowdfunded charity book

  • Crystalline beauty … Grahame with Humphrey Bogart in the 1950 film In a Lonely Place.

    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool: the tragic life of Hollywood sensation Gloria Grahame

October 2017

  • Domhnall Gleeson and Will Tilston in Goodbye Christopher Robin.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Goodbye Christopher Robin review – delightful take on the difficult birth of Winnie-the-Pooh

    The sunlight is dappled with darkness in the story of AA Milne’s famous creation and its effect on the son who inspired him

June 2017

  • Suspended Time at Camp Hill Woolton Woods Liverpool by Christophe Berthonneau and Groupe F. Images by Gareth Jones

    Guaranteed to raise a smile! Our pop critic's verdict on Liverpool's Sgt Pepper celebrations

    Lucy in the Sky fireworks, A Day in the Life of the living dead, Lovely Rita’s parking meter parade … Beatlemania is gripping Liverpool. Our writer dives in

April 2017

  • Merchandising opportunity alert! The Doctor, Bill and Emojibot.

    Doctor Who: episode-by-episode
    Doctor Who recap: series 36, episode two – Smile

    Supporting characters are almost dispensed with as Bill gets her first trip off-world – to a deserted city populated by emoji-spouting robots

March 2017

  • ‘He was such an astonishing writer …’ the late Mal Peet, with author and friend Meg Rosoff.

    Mal Peet in line for posthumous win as Carnegie shortlist announced

    Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Ruta Sepetys also make shortlist, while children’s laureate Chris Riddell is nominated for Kate Greenaway illustration medal
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