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It\u2019s another great night at the The Telegraph Bath Children\u2019s Literary Festival<\/strong> <\/a>thanks to the appearance of Andy Mulligan (author of Ribblestrop<\/em>, Trash<\/em>, and The Boy with Two Heads<\/em>,<\/strong> amongst others) and John Boyne (whose novels for children include The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas<\/em>, Noah Barleywater Runs Away<\/em> and Stay Where You Are and Then Leave<\/em>),<\/strong> brandishing books so hot-off-the-press they\u2019re practically smoking.<\/p>\n

Both Mulligan and Boyne had careers before they turned to writing full-time: Mulligan worked in the theatre for about a decade, \u201cvery unsuccessfully\u201d before being made redundant \u201cthank goodness!\u201d while Boyne spent seven years at Waterstone\u2019s<\/strong> in Dublin.<\/p>\n

The aggressive boys\u2019 grammar school in London that Mulligan attended when young \u2013 \u201ca place of extraordinary cruelty\u201d he muses ruefully \u2013 informs his fiction, if not consciously. He\u2019s interested in psychological torment and friction between characters, but also the enduring power of deep friendships. Next week, for the first time, he\u2019s going back to his old school. \u201cYou might come across the very toilet your head was thrust down,\u201d offers John McLay,<\/strong> artistic co-director of the Festival, who\u2019s in the red chair tonight.<\/p>\n

Boyne also had a fairly miserable time of it at school and his experiences fuelled the writing of A History of Loneliness<\/em>, an adult novel. He was an avid reader as a child, taking out three books a week from his local library. Like many writers, he\u2019s a book fetishist, loving the paper, the typeface, the physical handling of a book in printed form. Put him in a stationery shop and he\u2019s in heaven.<\/p>\n

For Mulligan, the works of Enid Blyton<\/strong> were a childhood delight. \u201cMallory Towers<\/strong> was beautiful,\u201d he says wistfully. But he still recalls the moment of realising that no member of the Famous Five<\/strong> ever got hurt when deep in adventure, and then he just sort of lost faith. \u201cTheir life was too sunny. I wanted menace.\u201d It wasn\u2019t until he read Marianne Dreams<\/em> by Catherine Storr (published in 1958) that he got what he\u2019d been thirsting for.<\/p>\n

Boyne has some good advice for aspiring writers: \u201cDon\u2019t abandon. Never go back. Write the same amount every day. Put down a sentence and see where it takes you.\u201d Mulligan seconds that, adding that, \u201dWriting a book is a marathon. The best advice I was ever given is to just finish it. Even if it\u2019s no good, you\u2019ll have the experience of shaping something.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so to their latest novels: Mulligan\u2019s Liquidator<\/em><\/strong> is a thriller that has an addictive energy drink, a clumsy 14-year-old doing some work experience, and Machiavellian corporate shenanigans at its heart. Boyne\u2019s The Boy at the Top of the Mountain <\/em><\/strong>follows the orphaned Pierrot from Paris to Germany in 1935 and imminent war. The house where Pierrot ends up is no less than the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

Why write, asks McLay. \u201cI really couldn\u2019t do anything else,\u201d answers Boyne. \u201cIt\u2019s part of my psychology.\u201d And for Mulligan? \u201cThe pleasure. It was my hobby. It remains my hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what next? Boyne\u2019s on the second draft of a book set in Ireland, spanning 70 years. And Mulligan is writing a book about a dog with an identity crisis who just wants to be a cat.<\/p>\n

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