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News
28 November 2006: Michael gave an interview
about Princess Diana's Revenge on BBC
Radio Oxford a
little while back, and I've finally got round to uploading it to the website.
Click here to listen
to the interview.
25 November 2006: Two articles have recently
appeared in the press, so I've uploaded copies to the website. The
first article was a short piece in The Oxford Mail about the
1926 Fiat
Tourer that Michael found in a ditch in Ireland in the 1960s, an abandoned
wreck. He subsequently sold the car, and lost track of it: until a couple
of months ago, when someone got in touch with Michael through the website.
They'd recently purchased the car, fully restored, at auction, and were
kind enough to drive it over to Oxfordshire so that Michael could finally
take a ride in it. The full story of Michael's discovery of the car in
the 1960s, and the near-death experience Michael had bringing it to London,
is recounted in Michael's forthcoming memoir Spots
of Time. Click here to
read The Oxford Mail article.
The second article is
a feature by Maggie Hartford about Princess
Diana's Revenge, which appeared in The Oxford Times on
Friday. It's a really good article which really captures the farcical spirit
of the book: click here to read it.
2 November 2006: China
Miéville's Introduction to The Borrible Trilogy, which
was originally written for the 2002 Macmillan re-publication but omitted
from the final book, is now available. Click
here to read it. Many thanks to China for granting permission for us
to use his introduction.
Also, an article Peter Lyle wrote a few months back for TANK
Magazine is now available to read on the site - click
here to do so. The download is around 3MB, however; you have been warned...
10 October 2006: Michael's new book, Princess Diana's Revenge, is now available to buy. Click here for more information about the book, or click here for information on how to purchase. Currently only the paperback edition is available; however, the hardback will be available soon. Please click here to email us if you would like a hardback copy reserved.
PLEASE NOTE: We are currently having problems with our distriubtors, so although Princess Diana's Revenge is technically available at any bookshop worldwide the price you will be charged in bookshops will be greatly inflated. We hope to have this resolved soon; in the meantime, click here to find out how to purchase Princess Diana's Revenge directly from us.
9 October 2006: following the succesful release of Princess Diana's Revenge on Michael's own Tallis House imprint, we can announce that we will soon be releasing Spots of Time, Michael's memoirs. We also hope to reprint Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite in time for Christmas. Stay tuned for more information, or click here to email us and ask to be added to our mailing list.
8 June 2006: Most of the book
pages are
now set up with links to each book's first chapter, available as a free
PDF, a synopsis (in some case), and purchasing information. If you buy
one of Michael's books on Amazon after following a link from this site,
Amazon will make a donation to Macmillan
Cancer Support.
Also, make sure to check out the multimedia section
which has links to various press clippings, and an article written by Jack
Zipes, a Professor at the University of Minessota, about the Borribles. I
guess I'm going to call this v0.5 of michaeldelarrabeiti.com - there's still
a load more stuff to come, but we're getting there...
4 June 2006: PDFs of the first chapter
of each of Michael's books (apart from The
Redwater Raid, which
will be coming soon) are now available to download. We're still in the
process of linking through to the PDFs, so for the moment click on the
following links to download the first chapter of each book: The Borribles, The
Borribles Go For Broke, The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis, French
Leave, Foxes Oven, The Hollywood Takes, The
Bunce, The Provencal Tales, A Rose Beyond the Thames, Journal
of a Sad Hermaphrodite.
28 April 2006: michaeldelarrabeiti.com
v0.1 launched, with extensive biography,
index of Sunday Times travel journalism,
and three
full Sunday Times articles available to
download. More to come very soon; apologies in the meantime for any broken
links...
Michael de Larrabeiti...
...was born in Battersea, south London in 1934. He is the critically acclaimed author of twelve books, including the infamous Borrible Trilogy. This is his official website. Use the tabs at the top of the page to navigate.
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