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Tuesday, 29 November 2022

My Books of the Year 2022

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Best of the best published in ‘22 Each of the children’s and young teen books I have reviewed this year has been outstanding in its own way...
Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Resist by Tom Palmer

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Cover illustration: Tom Clohosy Cold A publishing marvel Publisher Barrington Stoke does a great job in providing high quality, accessible...
Friday, 11 November 2022

Midwinter Burning by Tanya Landman

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Cover: Tom Clohosy Cole Historically great I am already a huge admirer of Tanya Landman ’s historical novels, most of which have been prima...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022

The Haunted Hills by Berlie Doherty

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Illustrations: Tasmin Rosewell One of our finest Prolific writer Berlie Doherty has twice won the Carnegie Medal. For forty years she has ...
Saturday, 5 November 2022

Twiggy Thistle and the Lost Guardians by Chris Riddell

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The edge of greatness There is so much to admire about the hugely prolific  Chris Riddell : glorious illustrations to books by such a diver...
Sunday, 16 October 2022

Tyger by SF Said, Illustrated Dave McKean NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK

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  ‘The most ordinary things had become extraordinary.’ (p 66) And now . . .  Only very rarely does an author build a high reputation on a v...
Thursday, 13 October 2022

The Chestnut Roaster by Eve McDonnell

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Cover: Holly Ovenden I much admired and enjoyed Eve McDonnell ’s debut MG novel, Elsetime and have been waiting to see if she would come up ...