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Eoin Colfer

April 2023

  • In the beginning …

    Top 10s
    Top 10 first lines in fiction

    The first words of a story have to do a lot of work in snaring the reader. Novelist Liz Nugent considers some of her favourites

June 2020

  • Judi Dench dons the green in Artemis Fowl.

    Artemis Fowl review – Judi Dench gruffs it out amid rogue fairies

    Kenneth Branagh directs this family-fantasy-by-numbers adapted from Eoin Colfer’s bestselling teen novels

March 2020

  • Wide-eyed innocent – or not? … Ferdia Shaw in Artemis Fowl.

    Week in geek
    Evil or genius – what has Disney done to Artemis Fowl?

    Fans of the original books by Eoin Colfer are incensed by the latest film trailer, which seems confused on the hero’s morality

January 2020

  • Eoin Colfer

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Eoin Colfer on returning to Artemis Fowl – books podcast

    This week, the creator of the biggest child villain in literature talks about comedy writing and seeing his creation adapted by Disney

December 2019

  • Judi Dench as Commander Root in a scene from Disney’s Artemis Fowl, to be released in May.

    It’s Die Hard with fairies ... and a walk on part for the author in Artemis Fowl film

    After 25 million sales of his Artemis Fowl books, Eoin Colfer tells of his own film debut

November 2019

  • Terry Pratchett at his home near Salisbury in 2008.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which fantasy novelists can I turn to now that Terry Pratchett is gone?

    Author Eoin Colfer, who wrote the final book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, advises a bereft reader

September 2019

  • Eoin Colfer, the Irish children's author, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 29th August.<br>F4NX0P Eoin Colfer, the Irish children's author, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015. Edinburgh, Scotland. 29th August.

    Children's book reviews round-up
    Fiction for older children reviews: flying puns and dangerous games

    Fowl play with the brothers of Artemis, a risky dream game and a Russian bear-girl mystery

December 2018

  • Hair It's A Family Affair by Mylo Freeman ONLY FOR REVIEW

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels

    Mealtime wars, a puppy without a bark and crazy science … fun and facts for all ages in this month’s selection

April 2018

  • Composite photograph (L-R): Jeanette Winterson, J.R.R Tolkien and Caitlin Moran.

    Books blog
    What will you be reading next year? A roundup of London book fair

    A new JRR Tolkien, four Naomi Alderman books and the memoirs of a mole-catcher – a collection of the biggest and most interesting books due to be published in 2019 and 2020

October 2017

  • An image from Illegal (detail)

    Children's book of the week
    Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin review – moving story of a child migrant

  • Mark Wing-Davey and Sandra Dickinson

    Don't panic! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in line for radio reboot

May 2016

  • PJ Lynch Photograhed by Steve Langan

    Children's books
    PJ Lynch is Ireland's new children's laureate

    The year of the ‘big picture’: author and illustrator PJ Lynch is announced the fourth Laureate na nÓg in Dublin

March 2016

  • Irish children's author Eoin Colfer

    Why I love …
    Children's author Eoin Colfer on why he loves Hook Head, Ireland

  • Oliver Jeffers

    Children's books
    Irish children's book of the year award shortlist revealed

February 2016

  • Alice Oseman

    Children's books
    Alice Oseman: Romance is not the centre of my world

  • Children's books
    Once Upon a Place by Eoin Colfer – review

January 2016

  • Smudging the darks

    Children's books
    How to draw… with charcoal

    From smudging techniques to dramatic use of white chalk, Irish illustrator PJ Lynch has some useful tips on how to make great drawings using charcoal

November 2015

  • Eoin COlfer and Oliver Jeffers

    Children's books
    Children's books podcast: Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers on their picture book, Imaginary Fred

    Eoin Colfer, author of the bestselling Artemis Fowl novels, and award-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers have paired up to create a book about imaginary friends, Imaginary Fred. Find out how they met by chance, collaborated across continents by skype, and, of course, whether they have their own imaginary friends

  • Once upon a place

    Children's books
    What are the best traditional children's story anthologies?

    From Arabian Nights to Welsh legends to Laureate na n’Óg Eoin Colfer’s Once Upon a Place project, the Book Doctor recommends anthologies of stories that help us get to know a country’s culture
  • Eoin Colfer gets into character.

    Eoin Colfer to give Iron Man 'the Dublin treatment'

    Artemis Fowl author signs up with Marvel to write a new adventure for young adults, promising an irreverent look at ‘yer man in the suit of armour’
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