Magic Fiction Since Potter

Expectations Frances Hardinge is one of the most original and imaginative writers for young (and older) people around. I have delighted in...

A story of history I must admit, I tend to avoid children’s fiction from celebrity writers. However, Alice Roberts has considerable author...

Illustration: Celia Krampien This is one of those rare books that I picked up and read the first couple of pages, just to get a feel of wha...

‘it’s the darkness that switches on the lights’ About poems and novels  I was hugely taken with Matt Goodfellow ’s recent book of poetry, L...

Cover: Holly Ovenden ‘The problem with being a Berliner in 1948 - there was only so much daydreaming possible before reality came banging a...

Contains scenes that may . . . This is very much a book for teens+, about, but not solely for, those in the chrysalis stage of male develop...

Cover: Tamsin Rosewell Berlie Doherty has been creating wonderful children’s literature for us for fifty years now and it was thrilling to...