Audio & Video
Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
Catherine talks about the characters in her books and the real people who inspired them.
- Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
- Introduction
- Genre
- The World
- Drawing out the secret character
- Character and story
- Stuff
- Obstacles
- Choices
- Summary
- Questions from schools
- Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
- Using Scotland as a setting
- A question from Blake
- Orion Lost reading
- Start with a face
- Three pointers for writers
- Wishes
- Characters
- Working with young writers