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These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references - in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs - to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Long , Children , Book , Nature


'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of the First World War, and anti-war writing in general, is in there.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  World , Writing , War , Single


I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Me , Prize , Judges , Chair


I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Know , Year , Income , Royalty


Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Children , Crown , British , Jewel


Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will writers of that quality have been able to serve the same sort of apprenticeship? Not unless they can make enough money now to live on.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Time , Long , Money , Quality


In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Time , Parents , School , Sister


At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Me , School , Dad , Museum


Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Me , Time , War , Women


I studied Wilfred Owen for my English A Level, and that led me to Sassoon and Blunden, Rosenberg and Thomas.

Author: Tony Bradman - English Writer
  Me , English , Level , Led


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