Yes. Glad you like it - my favourite of his novels. The vein of fantasy (or fabulation) in Land has given way to realism in his more recent, and more successful, novels Taking Apart the Poco Poco and Fat Hen. Actually, Land has been one of the things preventing me writing fiction in the last few years - every time I get a good idea, I find it's too similar. (I think I may be over that, now - I've actually begun a novel in the last few weeks.) Best wishes, Matthew -----Original Message----- From: David Kennedy <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 02 July 2000 09:03 Subject: Re: Postgrad writing courses > >"(my brother Richard)" > > Is that as in the author of that tiptop novel The Land Where Lost Things >Go? > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%