https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2020/jan/07/eoin-colfer-on-returning-to-artemis-fowl-books-podcast

When Eoin Colfer’s novel Artemis Fowl was tearing up the bestseller charts in 2001, it seemed as if the author had cracked the recipe for getting reluctant boys to read. Take one part adventure, one part tech, mix in some fairies and add farts.

The eight-book series completed its arc in 2012, when the young villain Artemis found a kind of redemption. But Colfer has now returned to the Fowl universe with The Fowl Twins, following Artemis’s younger brothers, Myles and Beckett, as they go on the rampage with a troll and a fairy in training. He sits down with Sian to talk about comedy, how children’s literature has changed, and the forthcoming Disney adaptation of Artemis Fowl directed by Kenneth Branagh.