Event: Eoin Colfer flies vintage Tiger Moth and officially launches his new book for children Airman (published by Puffin Books 4th January 08), speaking to two hundred local school children about Airman followed by a book signing.
Venue: Duxford Imperial War Museum, Cambridge, CB22 4QR
Date: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Time: 10.30am
Eoin Colfer is one of the UK’s best-selling children’s authors. Best known for his phenomenally successful Artemis Fowl series, dubbed ‘Die Hard with Fairies’, his UK sales top 2.7 million copies and over 9 million copies worldwide. He is ranked alongside Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson and Anthony Horowitz as one of the UK’s most popular and best-selling authors. Eoin’s books are published in 41 countries, including the US where they regularly top the New York Times bestseller charts and his explosive blend of action, comedy and fast-paced adventure has won the former primary school teacher millions of adoring fans the world over.
Airman is Eoin’s most recent novel and is a story of high adventure, romance and betrayal set in the 1880s at the time of the invention of flight. When Airman’s hero, Conor Broekhart, suffers the darkest of betrayals and finds himself incarcerated on the island of Great Saltee, he must win the race for flight to save his family and right a terrible wrong. A swashbuckling Count of Monte Cristo style adventure, Airman is a complete departure for Eoin who has previously written hi-tech, futuristic adventures best described as Hans Christian Anderson meets Miami Vice.
Airman is a good old-fashioned romp: swashbuckling high adventure in the mould of Kidnapped or The Count of Monte Cristo, packed with derring-do and gallant deeds, with no toilet humour or postmodern japery whatsoever. And it’s his strongest work yet.Read the Guardian review by SF Said
Eoin will be doing a tour of the USA from the 10th of January. So if you live in or near New York, Dallas, Skokie, Seattle, Alameda, Petaluma, San Jose, St. Louis, Houston or Dallas you can meet the man himself.
Eoin gave a full length interview to John Kelly on RTE’s “The View” programme last night. You can watch the full interview on the RTE site by going to this page and clicking on “Watch the Entire Show”. This video is in RealPlayer format so you will need the free RealPlayer software to watch the show.
‘An homage both to the 19th-century science fiction of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, and to the superheroes of Marvel and DC comics, Colfer’s latest brims with boy appeal. Artemis Fowl fans will flock to this novel, and the polished, sophisticated storytelling here deserves an even wider audience than that bestseller. Conor Broekhart’s superpower is his brain, and he uses his smarts to fight tyranny. A tour de force.’ – Publishers Weekly
Check the updated Airman page for details on preordering what will surely be the most exciting book of 2008 and also for news of a competition to give away 12 exclusive preview copies of the book.
Here’s another one from ExpoTV. Ashley(?) doesn’t like Artemis! Well that’s fair enough, we’re all entitled to our opinions….but would you trust somebody that chooses to wear THAT shirt! : )
Her’s a bit of fun! Found while digging through the site statistics. ExpoTv is a review site where anybody can post a video review of almost anything. There’s quite a few of Eoin’s books reviewed and they range from the daft to the ridiculous. In this one we learn that Eoin Colfer is NOT his real name!!!
enjoy!
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