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...writing – I seem to enjoy working through evidence and trying to understand why events unfolded as they did. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? After school, I did a fine art portfolio preparation course and began a degree in visual communication before switching to an arts degree. That background meant that I knew a bit about, and...

...writing poems, inventing games, and honing his skills of parody. The poem ‘Jabberwocky’, for instance, was originally a spoof piece of Anglo-Saxon poetry in the magazine he produced for his family. His knowledge of children’s literature was as great as his knowledge of games and puzzles as can be seen from the many ways in which he reworks familiar literary forms in...