Michael De Larrabeiti

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From Narnia to Harry Potter: The grown-up messages in children’s books

The Irish Times 19 Aug 2020

In 1985, following riots in Brixton and Tottenham in London, the publishing house Collins decided that one novel on its forthcoming schedule was just too controversial ... ... The dangerous volume in question was The Borribles. Across the Dark Metropolis, the third book in a trilogy of children’s novels by the British author Michael de Larrabeiti ... ...  .

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Keeping literature dirty

Lexington Herald-Leader 08 Apr 2015

It assumes that language is secondary to story, when in fact, it is the other way around ... "... "I can't celebrate a parent's inspired, genderswitched Bilbo Baggins or Michael de Larrabeiti's Borribles novels - which started life as an extended piss-take of the Wombles - without defending the rights of readers whose changes I disagree with." ... .

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Allow Clean Reader to swap 'bad' words in books – it's a matter of free speech

The Guardian 30 Mar 2015

Photograph. Screenshot/Clean Reader. Cory Doctorow. Monday 30 March 2015 14.38 BST ... I can’t celebrate a parent’s inspired, genderswitched Bilbo Baggins or Michael de Larrabeiti’s Borribles novels – which started life as an extended piss-take of the Wombles – without defending the rights of readers whose changes I disagree with ... This is not the case ... .

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Meet the teen books site members M-S

The Guardian 17 Dec 2014

• Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac ... Cathy Cassidy, Michael Morpurgo, Malorie Blackman ... John Green, David Levithan and Michael Morpurgo ... Sylvia Plath, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Alain de Botton ... Michael Morpurgo, Chanda Hahn and Eva Ibbotson ... Michael Morpurgo, Cathy Cassidy, Celia Rees ... • The Borribles by Michael De Larrabeiti - review.

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The Borribles, once infamous children's books, reissued for 21st-century readers

The Guardian 19 Feb 2014

Michael de Larrabeiti's classic stories of anarchic, pointy-eared street children the Borribles, which were judged to be so lawless in the 1980s that their publisher pulled out of releasing the third book, are set to enjoy a new lease of life through Tor Books ... Rose de Larrabeiti.

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China Miéville on the Borribles: 'We need them more than ever'

The Guardian 19 Feb 2014

A tribute from 2001 to Michael de Larrabeiti's feral heroes by the bestselling author of The City and the City and Embassytown ... For those of us who read Michael de Larrabeiti's classic trilogy, an awful lot of things suddenly made sense ... I'm not one of them, and neither, thank God, is Michael de Larrabeiti.

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An epic excuse for violence

The Guardian 23 Feb 2010

Photograph ... Having been a bit lukewarm about the grubby, light-fingered Borribles, when I detected Homeric notes in the great set-pieces ("a hopeless groan came from the Rumbles; their greatest warrior was slain", "eyes, teeth, bone and brains; and all of it slippery with a fast-thickening blood") Michael de Larrabeiti could do no wrong ... .

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Book corner

The Guardian 28 Nov 2009

A book lover's guide to building a brilliant children's library. No 53 The final round-up. As I briefly explained last week, I have cajoled an extra slot out of 's editors in order, really, to salve my conscience ... (For the avoidance of doubt, the Moomins are not talking animals ... It is extraordinary ... No 30 The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti (1976) ... .

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University challenged

Irish Times 20 Jun 2009

Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties, Edited by Sebastian Balfour, Laurie Howes, Michael de Larrabeiti, Anthony Weale, The Lilliput Press, 271pp ... The editors here are Sebastian Balfour, Laurie Howes, Michael de Larrabeiti and Anthony Weale. (Michael de Larrabeiti died last year, and the book is dedicated to him.).

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Where the wildest literary rascals are

The Guardian 04 Jun 2009

Spike Jonze and his Where the Wild Things Are team have made some lame picks in their list of top 10 literary rascals ... Photograph ... And what about those ultimate rascals the ? Michael de Larrabeiti's urban lost boys swap childhood home comforts for pointy ears, eternal youth and ultimate freedom, battling the police and the vicious, rat-like Rumbles ... .

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Hell and high water

Sydney Morning Herald 12 Nov 2008

Jerome Starkey ventures where no man on motorbike has been - into the vast mountains of the Wakhan Corridor. The water is cold and fast and my motorbike is drowning ... Ash is on the far bank beckoning me forward ... Tim Severin, who went on to become a world-famous explorer, Stanley Johnson (now a British MP) and author Michael de Larrabeiti ... I charge in ... .

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Michael de Larrabeiti

The Guardian 30 Jul 2008

"The quality of life is decided in large part by the people you meet," remarked Michael de Larrabeiti, who has died at 73 ... Born in London, De Larrabeiti was one of four sons ... De Larrabeiti wanted to write ... · Michael de Larrabeiti, writer, born August 18 1934; died April 4 2008 Close Close.

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Michael de Larrabeiti: Creator of the Borribles

The Independent 14 May 2008

An author of impeccable, old-style Bohemian credentials, Michael de Larrabeiti with his best-known novel The Borribles brought class war into children's fiction as never before ... The hero already of a cycle journey to and back from Paris, de Larrabeiti now threw himself into travelling big time ... Michael de Larrabeiti, writer.

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10 classic Larrabeiti travel essays

The Times 24 Apr 2008

Tracing the steps of Robert Louis Stevenson, Michael de Larrabeiti finds rural peace -and Wilfred Owen's grave ... Michael de Larrabeiti paid his respects to Robert Louis Stevenson ... Michael de Larrabeiti climbs aboard ... On the wild, empty roads of Corsica, Michael de Larrabeiti could never quite escape from Bonaparte, Boswell and his own hitchiking past.

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