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Won the Award for Best Play presented by Gwent Drama LeagueJuly 6, 2015Really pleased to have received this award!-
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Phil Mansell: Words & Pictures
- New video about my ‘Working Class Heroes’ paintings
- Press Release: ‘Bats’ Is A Hat-Trick For Playwright Phil
- Another Production of ‘Look Out – He’s Got A Gun!’
- ‘Bats’ confirmed as Jávea Players’ Summer Show
- Pirates, Knees and Chips: New Children’s Books Added
- Inspired by Fish and Chips!
- Interviewed About Writing and Illustrating Children’s Books
- ‘Look Out – He’s Got A Gun’ Published
- Turning An Old Poem Into YouTube Video
- Proof That Writing Is Never Wasted
Tag Archives: adventure
Turning An Old Poem Into YouTube Video
The Lockdown here in Spain is thankfully coming to an end. While I’ve been confined to quarters I’ve taken the opportunity to learn some new skills and try to produce examples of “virtual theatre”, based on plays I’ve written, such … Continue reading
Uncle Mungo – the video.
I created the video below to promote my book ‘Uncle Mungo and the Great Wallaby Painting Contest’. Available in paperback from Amazon.
All Set to Publish!
I’m about to press the button to launch my first book on Amazon. It’s a moment filled with excitement and not a little trepidation. Just how did I get here? It all started about a year ago when I wrote a story … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Amazon, artwork, children's books, drawing, how to self-publish, illustration, inspirational, Painting, plot, script, Scrivener, self publishing, Uncle Mungo, watercolour, writing
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In Praise of Enid Blyton’s Adventure Books
As it’s World Book Day it seems appropriate to remember the author who first got me really excited about reading and writing. From the age of five I was taken by my mother to the magnificent old library on Soho … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, adventure, banned, best-seller, boarding school, children's authors, crooks, Enid Blyton, Handsworth Library, inspirational, J.K.Rowling, Phil Mansell, plot, R.L.Stevenson, Roald Dahl, secret caves, sexist, shipwrecked, smugglers, talking parrot, The Famous Five, The Valley of Adventure, treasure, World Book Day, writing and re-writing, xenophobia, yarn
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