Welcome to Planet Narnia!
This website gives you information about my new book Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2008).
To see what the critics are saying about it, click here.
The book argues that Lewis secretly based the Chronicles of Narnia on the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos.
But is it really possible that Lewis could have invented and kept such a secret? Why would he have been so interested in medieval cosmology? What are the seven heavens? How come nobody has noticed this secret before? Does this hidden theme matter?
Here you will find answers to these and many other frequently asked questions. I hope they will inspire you to read the Narnia Chronicles and Planet Narnia itself, if you haven't done so already.
Do let me know what you think of the book by posting your own review on the page of readers' comments.
If you have any questions about either Planet Narnia or the accompanying lecture tour, please be in contact.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Ward
'It's fun laying out all my books as a cathedral. Personally I'd make Miracles and the other "treatises" the cathedral school: my children's stories are the real side-chapels, each with its own little altar.'
C.S. Lewis
