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Stan Howes of The Belfast Telegraph, discovers the first-rate tourist attraction that is the CS Lewis coach tour. See the best of Narnia in Belfast - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk ... read more

Pauline Baynes, the artist and illustrator who died on August 1 aged 85, brought the worlds of CS Lewis’s Narnia and JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth to life with her superb line drawings. In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to talk about some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him. These, it ... read more

A blue plaque has been put up at the Oxford home of CS Lewis, author of the popular “The Chronicles of Narnia” series. The plaque, a distinctive memorial denoting the location as historically significant, was unveiled at the start of a two-week conference in honour of Mr. Lewis. He lived at The Kilns, a cottage in Headington, Oxford while he taught at Oxford University. He wrote the entirety of his “Narnia” series while residing there. Stan Mattson, president of the ... read more

Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule (unabridged) has stormed to the top of the fantasy charts at Audible.co.uk Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Northern Lights by Philip Pullman Outcast by Michelle Paver Prince Caspian by CS Lewis Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett All the top ten are ... read more

Variety.com recently reported that Prince Caspian has added another $7 million this weekend to its international box office total, bringing its numbers up to $230 million overseas.  Prince Caspian has now grossed approximately $369.6 million worldwide. Prince Caspian opens on the 31st of July in Germany, Austria, and Slovenia. ... read more

Richard and Gillian Saville-Smith, the couple who bought a Narnia website name for their son’s birthday have lost a battle with the estate of CS Lewis to keep it. The Edinburgh bought www.narnia.mobi for their 11-year-old son Comrie, who is a fan of the CS Lewis books. However, CS Lewis (Pte) Ltd, the owners of the CS Lewis estate lodged a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organisation. ... read more

Three signed first edition copies of books by CS Lewis have sold for a total of £30,000 at an auction in Sotheby’s. This was more than three times the price they expected to fetch. The sale in London had experts were predicting that the books would fetch around £3,000 each but bidding on the books was so enthusiastic that The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader sold for £10,625, The Horse And His Boy £10,000 and The Last Battle £9,375. The books were sold by Lewis’s former private ... read more

Oxford is set to honour CS Lewis with a blue plaque at his former Oxford home where he wrote his ever popular fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis lived at The Kilns in Risinghurst, also known as ‘The Gateway to Narnia’, for 33 years and it was here that the fantasy author wrote his successful children’s stories. The Narnia books have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. The commemorative plaque will be unveiled this Saturday (26th of July 2008) and will ... read more

Three signed, first-edition copies of books by CS Lewis are expected to fetch up to £3,000 each at an auction that will be held next month. The three books, all signed by CS Lewis, are The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle. The books are being sold by American Walter McGehee Hopper, who was a friend to and private secretary to CS Lewis. The proceeds from the auction will go to the Roman Catholic church in Oxford where CS Lewis worked and spent much of his ... read more

A recent Poll by Play.Com to find the Greatest Book Of All Time has polled 3 fantasy titles in the Top Ten. It will come as no surprise to find that JRR Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings takes top fantasy title although it may surprise some people (not here at FBR) that this book rates a worthy 2nd place in a poll which covers all genres and eras. The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis made a very respectable 3rd place, whilst JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ... read more