Let’s Get Festive: Gracie Fairshaw and Trouble At the Tower by Susan Brownrigg

Today is my turn in the Let's Get Festive! 12 Days of Christmas Tour, and I’ve thought long and hard about what to feature here. I thought about leaning into another folklorist Wintertide like I did with The Clockwork Crow, but then as everyone else on the tour was taking a jolly tone, I thought, …

Stand And Deliver- Philip Caveney

Philip Caveney has brought his thrilling adventures to historical settings with Stand And Deliver! Perfect for lovers of historical fiction that asks questions of its readers about the way we frame lovable rogues and criminal behaviour,  and ideal for those studying the History of Crime and Punishment- though perhaps more relevant at the GCSE end.  …

The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair by Natasha Hastings illustrated by Alex T Smith

I'm honoured to be celebrating Natasha's gorgeous middle grade debut The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair which is released in the UK on the 27th October, my only regret, is that I didn't have enough time, nor energy to create a bookbounding costume in time for my date on the Write Reads Tour, as I …

Flight – Vanessa Harbour

Apologies, I intended to post this first or in tandem with my blog tour post for the sequel Safe, but life circumstances meant its coming a little later. Flight was published in 2018 and I think it deserves to be revisited with the publication of Safe and especially for those new to the series, will …

Safe- Vanessa Harbour

Whilst Flight offered a rip roaring classical adventure blending horses, escaping Nazis and friendship forged in peril the follow up in Safe, Vanessa Harbour takes that and turns it up to eleven.  A second adventure for Jakob and Kizzy flips the narrative to Kizzy’s perspective, and we get a insight into her vulnerable world in …

Bookbounding My Friend, the Octopus

Following on from my analytical review here's the creative stuff!! There was no way I couldn’t turn Lindsay Galvin’s My Friend The Octopus into book cosplay, there’s so much I could completely nerd out about and have me the opportunity to push my sewing skills to the limit to blend my two lives, recreate a …

My Friend, The Octopus by Lindsay Galvin

This review will come in two parts, this is the analysis post, the other is to come later this afternoon!! You may know there are a few topics that will immediately endear me to a book, and a combination of such will make me love it. And then there’s the special few that put a …