The Secret Language of the Customer
How do you define ‘business’? Buying and selling? Doing deals? Money changing hands for something?  Any and all businesses, to be proper...
'The Last Battle' to Get Readers Into Heaven
Having revisited Narnia in its past in The Magician's Nephew, Â Lewis succeeded in reinforcing its symbology by giving powerful and...
How Humour Works
Humour works on surprise.  It’s all about the ‘juxtaposition of inappropriateness’, which is a complex phrase describing the exaggerated...
Lewis, the Mediaeval Mind and Parallel Universes
In most people’s minds today, there is a common misunderstanding about the Middle Ages, based on two or three accepted ‘facts’ which are...
'The Magician's Nephew': The Beginning of the End of Narnia, Part Two
In the first chapters of The Magician's Nephew , Lewis touches upon the Twentieth Century notion of the nature of the universe, and comes...
'The Magician's Nephew': The Beginning of the End of Narnia, Part One
While The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  leapt into life in Lewis’s imagination as a fully-fledged tale in its own right, Lewis...
Aslan in 'The Horse and His Boy'
When he first appears Aslan is a clear-cut character within a story. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , he adopts a central role...
Narnia Becomes Symbolic: 'The Silver Chair'
Though T he Voyage of the Dawn Treader and  The Silver Chair  are two separate novels, penned by Lewis at unspecified times, as far as...
Lewis's Journey to the Heart of Narnia
Lewis, compelled by his mission to bring modern readers out of the Ironic culture in which they were immersed, and to show them a...