Dr William Butcher

BA Warwick, MA Lancaster, PhD Lond,, Anc El (Etr.) ENS

email: wbutcher at netvigator.com

1A, Kai Ku Shue Ha Village
Luk Keng, NT
Hong Kong
 

Tel: (852) 9488 6470

Hongkonger Bill Butcher was Founding Director of the Language Centres at the IVE, and is now an independent writer and property restorer. Previously, he worked at Oxford and the ENA (Paris).

His main research area is the nineteenth-century French novelist Jules Verne, where he has published a million words and is the specialist most cited online. He is currently working on a critical edition. 

TV appearance

(France 5, Echappées belles, "Autour du monde", 14 June 2008, "Londres", 46 mins-52 mins: http://www.france5.fr/echappees-belles/spip.php?page=videos)

Recent interview

Mundo Verne, July-Aug. 2008

Recent books

◊ Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography, with an introduction by Arthur C Clarke (Thunder's Mouth, 2nd edition Oct. 2008)
◊ Salon de 1857 (Acadien, Sept. 2008)
◊ Humbug (Acadian, June 2008)
◊ Lighthouse at the End of the World (Nebraska UP, 2007)
◊ Around the World in Eighty Days (new OUP edition, 2006, printrun 55,000)
  

Recent articles

◊ Verne en versión original: Las verdaderas aventuras del capitán Hatteras
◊ “Introduction” to Foundling Mick
◊ Verne’s Underground City: The Lost Chapters from Les Indes noires"