Magic Fiction Since Potter

Cover: Matt Saunders ‘ In the Valley of the Quest one must change one’s state.’ (p 251) Mother’s son I do not generally think it is right o...

Classic The Iron Man is truly one of the  all-time classics of children’s literature. I am generally no advocate of proscribed books for ch...

Pink Rabbit I do not usually review books for a children’s audience as young as this one’s (6-8 say?), but a final, posthumous publication ...

‘Ignore those who would call it mindless escapism: it is not escapism: it is findism. Children’s books are not a hiding place, they are a s...

Cover: Anna Morrison ‘New York waited outside the window, stretching up to the sky like the calligraphy of a particularly flamboyant god.’ ...

Cover: Helen Crawford-White ‘The sea never stopped. Wave after wave after wave, day and night, from since time began until time ended. Gran...

Cover art by David Litchfield ‘Dark, angry purples and greys swirled in the sky as the rain poured down and met the ocean, which churned in...