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Diana Wynne Jones

September 2023

  • Howl’s Moving Castle.

    ‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones

    Long before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a school for witches. Fifty years after the author of Howl’s Moving Castle published her first novel for children, Rundell celebrates the writer who inspired her own fantasy debut

July 2023

  • A movie poster of Hayao Miyazaki's film How Do You Live? displayed outside a movie theatre in Tokyo

    The Guardian view on Studio Ghibli: a Japanese success story in a faltering film world

    Editorial: The latest anime from director Hayao Miyazaki aced at the box office without any marketing. All credit to his unique vision and passionate fans

January 2020

  • woman looks up on sunny day

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about new beginnings

    From Virginia Woolf to Lorrie Moore and Diana Wynne Jones, fresh starts provide an endless source of inspiration for fiction

December 2019

  • Rebecca Solnit, Tiffany Haddish, and Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory.

    Hope in the dark: culture to make you feel less terrible about the UK election

    You may be distraught at the result, or just want a break from politics – so find solace in our critics’ pick of 30 films, songs, books and more to hide under a duvet with

February 2019

  • Lulu Chen Student Taitung City, Taiwan Lulu Chen is Taiwan based illustrator, an animal lover and a dreamer. She is passionate about creating children’s book illustrations, designing imaginative backgrounds and unique characters with personality. As an illustrator, she has developed a unique artistic voice, using colour and tone to conjure up narrative visually. When she is not drawing she is probably playing with her dog and drinking tea. Caption 2: “ If you agree to break the spell on me”, Sophie said, with a brave sense of saying something fatal.

    Illustrating Howl's Moving Castle – in pictures

    Here are the 25 Book Illustration Competition finalists in the running to illustrate the Folio Society’s new edition of Diana Wynne Jones’s classic novel about a young woman’s adventures with a wizard

August 2016

  • ‘demanding, rich and full of hope’: Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones.

    Books to give you hope
    Books to give you hope: Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

    Written to create a female hero, this book about hidden magic in the everyday eschews fairy-tale bliss to close with an inconclusive yet brilliant assertion that monsters must be faced together

January 2016

  • FIRST RELEASE PICTURE FROM ?THE GOLDEN COMPASS?<br>A still from the film The Golden Compass The young lady on the left is Dakota Blue Richards, a twelve-year-old from Sussex, who won a most coveted role of Lyra Belacqua in the screen version of The Golden Compass?, part one of Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials Dakota won the role from 10,000 other eager young hopefuls attending one of four casting calls held in the south of England. Dakota was a big fan of the books, and loved the National Theatre production. She wanted to play Lyra more than anything else in the world. And now she gets to play Lyra five days a week. The actress on the right is Nicole Kidman as the impossibly glamorous, manipulative Mrs. Coulter a woman who gives new meaning to the word mercurial, as she turns from charming to dangerous in the spin of a dice.

    Children's books
    Top 10 feminist heroes in fiction

    Maria Turtschaninoff grew up reading about girls. Strong girls, brave girls, scared girls, feisty girls. Here she reveals her favourite feminist heroes who are more than just role models, from Earthsea to the Moomins.

December 2015

  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND<br>Mia Wasikowska on the set of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" Film still

    Children's books
    Top 10 parallel worlds in fiction

  • A still from the Studio Ghibli film adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’ book Howl’s Moving Castle.

    A book to share
    Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones – fantastical fun, fantastically human

April 2015

  • Samantha Shannon, author of The Mime Order.

    Feeding the Hunger – female writers are storming the male citadels of sci-fi

    A generation of readers raised on Harry Potter has had a knock-on effect on demand for fantasy fiction, and left publishers scrambling to sign up women

March 2015

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    Children's books
    Jessamy Taylor’s top 10 castles in fiction

    From classic scary gothic settings to warm and dreamy refuges, fiction is full of castles. Jessamy Taylor picks the most memorable

April 2014

  • Children's books
    Unnatural Creatures edited by Neil Gaiman - review

    Sophiescribes: 'I highly recommend this book if you want something really scary'

February 2014

  • Diana Wynne Jones

    The Islands of Chaldea by Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones – review

    Diana Wynne Jones's final book is a delightful and assured quest adventure, writes Imogen Russell Williams

November 2013

  • Children's books
    Reader reviews roundup

  • Children's books
    Vile Visitors by Diana Wynne Jones - review

September 2013

  • JK Rowling and Dorothy L Sayers - authors who inspire addiction

    Books blog
    When favourite authors become an addiction

    Imogen Russell Williams: Some writers are so addictive I find myself tracking down every word they've penned. But which authors do you crave?

June 2013

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    Children's books
    Leigh Bardugo's top 10 childhood reads

  • Diana Wynne Jones

    Diana Wynne Jones's final book completed by sister

April 2013

  • Bodiam Castle, East Sussex

    The book doctor
    I need books set in castles and on islands, please

    There are adventures galore to be had on the wonderful playgrounds that are castles and islands and many classic children's stories use them as a setting

March 2011

  • Diana Wynne Jones

    Children's books
    Diana Wynne Jones quiz

    Diana Wynne Jones, the highly-praised fantasy writer, died this week leaving behind a large body of thrilling children's fiction. How well do you know her work? Take this quiz and find out

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