The Midnight Howl- Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder

Oi BOOKFACES!! Emily is back in the Midnight Howl and this time things are getting even more serious!  2019 brought a fiery girl with a proper shouty ‘gob’ on her, a constant need for snacks, a indefatigable need to ‘sort things out’ and a companion hedgehog  who just MIGHT be magical, The Midnight Hour by …

The Ghost Garden by Emma Carroll

What an incredible little novella The Ghost Garden is in collaboration between the amazing Emma Carroll and the awesome Barrington Stoke set in the weeks leading up to the British declaration of war in 1914. Emma Carroll brings to the dyslexia friendly publishing House her unique brand of weaving historical settings with a fantastical undertow, …

Amari & the Night Brothers by B.B Alston

I am DELIGHTED to be taking part in the Ultimate Blog Tour for Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston which is quite frankly such an thrilling and fresh take on the magical fish out of water genre that I can hardly hold my excitement in. The crunch of it could be summed up …

Clifftoppers: The Frost Castle Adventure by Fleur Hitchcock

I’m a huge fan of Fleur’s writing and especially this Clifftoppers series which I have been following eagerly since the beginning and am hoping desperately that Nosy Crow order another ‘year’ of adventures with the cousins visiting their grandparents’ farm every holiday break. This is perfect read for snowy weather but especially the Twixmas period, …

The Slightly Alarming Tale of The Whispering Wars- Jaclyn Moriarty

The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone is one of my favourite books ever. Moriarty manages to make her writing feel timeless, classic and modern in one, to sweep even the grown up away into its deeply layered worlds of magic. At first I was a little confused as this was billed as the sequel …

Blog Tour: Guest Post by Sharon Gosling author of The House of Hidden Wonders

I am so excited to be taking part in the Blog Tour for Sharon Gosling's The House Of Hidden Wonders. I am a huge fan of Sharon's writing, which has a dark and gritty edge to it that dances at the edge of peril whether in her middle grade writing such as this and the …

Blog Tour: Viper’s Daughter- Michelle Paver

I am delighted to be sharing my experience reading Viper’s Daughter where Michelle Paver takes the reader back to a Stone Age World of clans, magic and survival in another tale that picks up a few years later into Torak and Renn’s lives for fans yet is equally a standalone and a fine jumping in point …