

The Gateway to Narnia
During the Second World War, thousands of children were evacuated from their homes due to the Nazi air raids on London. Lewis, who lived...


Galadriel and Tolkien's Imagination
The character of Galadriel is an instance of Tolkien’s retroactive imagination at work. Not originally envisaged in his first tales of...

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

'The only moral that is of any value...'
Lewis wrote about how to write for children and came up with three fundamentals, the first two of which we have looked at earlier. This...


A Composite Personality
With the seven books of the Chronicles, Lewis’s ambition to use literature to produce profound spiritual experience expanded into a...


Meet Matthew and Sarah
Are you desperate to find time to write? And anxious that your writing will be good enough, even when you find time to do any? Meet...

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


From the Ransom Trilogy to Narnia...
In the Ransom Trilogy, then, Lewis attempts to produce a particular experience of transcendence in three ways: firstly, using Ransom as a...


The Secret Language That We All Know
Some time ago I joined a number of writing groups online. My idea was to get a feel for the kinds of conversations that I thought must be...


The Removal of Irony in 'That Hideous Strength'
Towards the end of That Hideous Strength, as Lewis has Ransom meet with Merlin to outline how the heavenly reality is about to descend...