EOIN COLFER
Jan 03, 2020
3 minutes
Words by Jonathan Wright
Photography by Mary Browne
ONCE THE DRAGON HAD INTERVENED, Eoin Colfer realised his new novel couldn’t be a children’s book, and that he’d have to rework it. “It started swearing and drinking,” he says. “I’m blaming the dragon, like I had no part in it.”
Whoever was responsible, the result is , a fantasy noir set in the Louisiana bayou. The fire-breather in question is Lord Highfire of Highfire Eyrie – aka Vern, a creature of venerable age with a penchant for vodka and,.
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