I've always been fascinated by Lewis Carroll's Alice books and have written several books and papers about them:
Alice in Darwin's Wonderland: Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' Books and the Theory of Evolution
This book responds to other books and papers published on Carroll's relationship with the natural world, some of which I consider unreliable. I hope that it will be published in 2026. Click here to see a detailed synopsis.
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The Art of ‘Alice’: Illustrators of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’ Books in Britain and the United States 1865-2015
This book, many years in the making, will be published in 2026? Click here to see a detailed synopsis.
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Published Papers
(1) Review of Martina Paatela-Nieminen, On the Threshold of Intercultural Alices (The Lewis Carroll Review, 2001)
(2) 'Madame d’Aulnoy’s Fairy Tale ‘Gracieuse et Percinet’ as a source for Alice’s Adventures’ (The Carrollian, Issue 9, 2002)
(3) ‘Alice, Tenniel and the Pope’ (The Carrollian, Issue 11, 2003)
(4) 'The Classics Illustrated and Marvel Comics Alices’ in Byron Sewell and Mark Burstein (eds.) Pictures and Conversations - Lewis Carroll in the Comics: An Annotated International Bibliography (US: Ivory Door Publications, 2003)
(5) ‘Pictorial Puzzles in Alice’ (The Carrollian, Issue 14, 2004) [Click on title to open paper]
(6) Review of Frankie Morris, Artist of Wonderland (The Lewis Carroll Review, 2006)
(7) 'Salvador Dali's Alice' (The Carrollian, Issue 27, 2016)
(8) 'Referring to Tenniel's Alice Illustrations' (The Carrollian, Issue 27, 2016)
THE AI ALICE
These images were produced with NightCafe and can be downloaded as pdfs.
The AI Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: click here
The AI Through the Looking-Glass: click here
OTHER FAVOURITE CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Setting aside Alice, my favourite children’s books are John Masefield’s The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk; closely followed by Edith Nesbit’s ‘Five Children’ series, especially The Story of the Amulet; Walter de la Mare’s children’s stories; and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows and The Golden Age.
Contemporary writers I admire include Philip Pullman, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, Philip Womack, Marcus Sedgewick, Frances Hardinge and Catherine Fisher.