Magic Fiction Since Potter

  To mark 'Terry Pratchett Day' (the author's anniversary, on April 28th) , Penguin (Corgi) are publishing a new edition of this...

  Stacked on the bookshop display,  Dragon's Green was prominently stickered: THIS BOOK GLOWS IN THE DARK. For goodness sake. Decent qu...

  It is great to now have the final part of Matt Griffin's Ayla Trilogy. (See post from May '16 for reviews of earlier volumes.) Fo...

  To my mind, Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy (starting with The Amulet of Samarkand and published between 2003 and 2005) is one of t...

  My posts from June and October '14 have already recorded my profound admiration for writer Nigel McDowell, who died at a tragically yo...

  Okay. Stanly. ( And yes, it is Stanly, without an 'e', although I have to wrestle my predictive text into submission before it wil...

  Christopher Edge's books sit comfortably in the middle of the children's category, not too long and reasonably accessible, yet hig...