William Nicholson

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

Has anyone read any of William Nicholson's books?  

As an antidote to the dreadful Artemis Foul, I also picked up the 
Wind Singer and Slaves of the Mastery, yesterday, romped through 
them, and now find myself in the same anticipatory situation as I am 
with Harry - as I am now waiting for the final book of the trilogy to 
come out.  I found them very imaginative, quite frightening in 
places, with a sound allegorical basis.  Anyway, something good to 
read while waiting for the next Harry Potter.

BTW, I find it quite ironic that I was yesterday slating Artemis Fowl 
for reading too much like a screenplay.  William Nicholson is 
responsible for the screenplays of Gladiator, Shadowlands (one of my 
favourites), Nell and First Knight, yet his novels don't read that 
way at all - certainly much more subtle, and able to give just the 
right amount of description to get the imagination working.

They also don't read like children's books.  In that way they are 
like the Philip Pullman trilogy - seemingly marketed that way as the 
main protagonists are children.

Catherine