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A: I love revisiting the world, yes, because it means I can find out more about it and the characters. As long as there are new places to take them and new mysteries to solve it will always be interesting. Q: There is a mystery at the heart of the novel, the box that Lily discovers and which the villains want. Why do you make this the driver of the story? A: Definitely the fox, Malkin. At the time I was writing Cogheart we had a fox living in our garden and I wrote the first scene of the story with him in mind. I had originally planned for it to be a mechanical man being chased through the woods but I thought it was more likely that an animal was being chased. If it was an animal being chased, it was probably going to be a fox.
Angelique has been fitted with mechanical wings so she can fly, while Luca the Lobster Boy has been A: One of my favourite parts of London is around Spitalfields Market where you have those Georgian Streets like Fournier Street that feel like you're walking through history. Revolted at what they see, Lily and her friends decide to rescue the hybrid teenagers, but they are caught by Slimwood, the circus owner, and Madame Lyons-Mane, the sinister ring mistress. A: The idea that came first was the automatons or little machines. I was reading a history of automatons in the eighteenth century and how eighteenth century inventors were trying to bring these machines to life. There were lots of discussions at the time about these new machines, for example whether they would have a soul or not. So the whole idea of bringing machinery to life attracted me.
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A: I'm not a natural engineer but I did need to know how airships operated for the story so I did some research into how they were engineered. I discovered that there are places in America today where they are trying to build modern versions of the old airships for military contracts. Skycircus is propelled along by a pulse-pounding plot, though this time the thrills are more adventure- than mysterydriven. Bunzl’s steampunk world is ever threatening and gripping, and his characters,
I think everyone needs to question how we treat others. To be aware of how people discriminates against those who are perceived as 'different' or a 'minority'. The truth is, fundamentally, we are the same and the 'us vs them' rhetoric is only about dividing everyone and creating discord. Q: Your books, and especially Skycircus, explore the discrimination faced by 'hybrids' - characters who have an element of mechanical in them. Why do you want to encourage children to think about issues like this? A: I tried to write screen plays but that is quite technical and I found it a bit boring. I was taking classes in writing at the City Lit at the time I was writing Cogheart, which had begun as a screen play. I decided to write it as prose fiction instead. One of the advantages is that you don't need to worry whether something can be animated or not.First dated October 4, 2020; the serialized Cogheart Adventures’ third book is Skycircus whose translated titles include Himlacirkusen (Swedish), Atraksi Maut (Indonesian), and Podniebny (Polish). A: Either at my desk in the sitting room or I go to one of the libraries like the British Library or the local one to do edits because it's quieter there, or a cafe if I want somewhere a bit noisier.
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