This was performed at the Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Established to 'control biscuits, and to control the idea of biscuits', it prohibits decadent sweetmeats, such as the Gypsy Cream." "Stop! Think before you eat that biscuit! Is it in any way fancy? If so, then you are a criminal! In Post-War London, The Ministry of Biscuits casts its sinister shadow over every tea-time and elevenses in the land. With Brian Mitchell, Reeve is the author of a 1998 dystopian comic musical, The Ministry of Biscuits. He lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Sam. During his student years and for a few years afterwards he wrote for and performed in comedy sketch shows with a variety of collaborators under various group names, among them The Charles Atlas Sisters. Before becoming an illustrator he worked at a bookshop in Brighton for several years. His 2007 novel, Here Lies Arthur, based on the legendary King Arthur, won the Carnegie Medal.īorn on 28 February 1966 in Brighton, Reeve studied illustration, first at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT – now Anglia Ruskin University), where he contributed a comic strip to the Student Union magazine, and later at Brighton Polytechnic (now the University of Brighton). Railhead is superb." - Martin Chilton, The Daily Telegraph.Philip Reeve (born 28 February 1966) is a British author and illustrator of children's books, primarily known for the 2001 book Mortal Engines and its sequels (the 2001 to 2006 Mortal Engines Quartet). "…the emotions of the characters (even the robot who wants freckles) draw you in wholeheartedly.
A futuristic vision that enthralls and chills." - The Financial Times. "Zen's world is hauntingly evoked in all its technological beauty. Published in the UK by Oxford University Press, and in the US by Switch Press. I was aiming for the exotic fun of classic space opera, but with trains instead of spaceships…
Hired to pull of a heist far more dangerous than he expected, petty thief Zen Starling is plunged into an adventure involving sentient trains, secret stations, sensitive androids, fickle data-gods, chatty insect colonies - so many things, in fact, that the story spilled over into two more books, Black Light Express and Station Zero. They'e in a similar scale to Mortal Engines, but instead of a ramshackle retro-future they'e set among the glittering hi-tech cities and terraformed garden planets of the Network Empire, an interstellar society built around a vast system of hyperspace railways. These books were my return to grand-scale world-building after a few years away.
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