Author Archives: Ian

About Ian

A keen fan of His Dark Materials and Philip Pullman. Assistant to Paul Temple and Sir Graham Forbes.

Pullman to speak at University of Bangor

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Ian

As a an honourary professor at the University of Bangor in north Wales, Philip Pullman is to speak at the establishment on February 9th along with several other speakers. The day is entitled ‘Upon My Word!’ and is a celebration … Continue reading →

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New Line Cinema to be folded into Warner Brothers?

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Ian

According to Nikki Finke in her Deadline Hollywood Daily Blog, a planned meeting took place earlier this week between New Line Cinema and the new chairman of their parent company, Warner Brothers. the result of this is that founders Bob … Continue reading →

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Obsessed with Pullman?

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Ian

The Bookwitch blog has recently featured a couple of interesting entries with a Pullman-related theme. Bookwitch firstly wrote about ‘What authors say‘ and an incident when a well known author had denied knowing who Philip Pullman was led to an … Continue reading →

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Philip Pullman’s New Brand of Environmentalism

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Ian

Last Saturday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper featured an exclusive article about a conversation between Philip Pullman and journalist Andrew Simms about Pullman’s environmentalism. Amongst other things Pullman speaks of the first time he realised that there was a problem with the … Continue reading →

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Christmas Give-Aways

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Ian

It’s not long until the big day and here at BridgetotheStars we’ve got a couple of contests for you. For those of you in the USA and Canada we have the opportunity to win a special personally signed copy of … Continue reading →

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