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Sixth-formers interview author Philip Pullman

Budding sixth-form journalists Seb Sutcliffe, Aja Garrod-Prance, Maddie Kirk, Ben Honey, Jonny Davidson and Jonny Frost recently interviewed celebrated author Philip Pullman. The pupils spent half an hour with the Whitbread-award winner for the first issue of EXEPRESS, a creative writing and arts magazine that is due to be launched later this term.

They asked Mr Pullman about how he approached the process of creating a narrative for his new book, about characters in his novels, and the latest book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, due to be published in the spring.

Year 12 pupil Seb Sutcliffe said: “We were a bit worried that some of our questions might be a bit closed, but he gave us lengthy answers we could feed back from. He was a charming, charismatic and interesting person.”