Feature: Corpse Talk: Dead Good Storytellers. Adam & Lisa Murphy

Today I am delighted to be hosting this stop on The Corpse Talk: Dead Good Storytellers Blog Tour with bonus featured content from the author & illustrator husband and wife team Adam and Lisa Murphy!  When the email for Corpse Talk popped up in my inbox it was an instant yes for us. Bringing to …

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, …

Last minute gift with feeling? try Wonderbly Books

So yesterday may have caught some UK based people out who are now thinking eeep I need something for... If a magazine subscription is not quite your ideal and you want something a bit different may I suggest a book from Wonderbly especially if you order by midnight tonight (20th December!) These books are an …

Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission by David Long & illustrated by Stefano Tambellini

50 years ago right about now Apollo 13 was about 2 days away (April 14th) from the infamous communication ‘Houston, we have a problem’ which prompted a flurry of problem solving, engineering and mathematical genius to bring home the three men on-board the stricken space module and showing that courage and ingenuity can do seemingly …

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 …

Believathon A book set in the past: The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth- Katherine Woodfine

I really enjoyed the Edwardian set A Clockwork Sparrow which introduced us to the Sinclair Mysteries and Lil Rose & Sophie Taylor- and if I wang to read Taylor & Rose Mysteries I need to get on with it with these!!! When Believathon was first announced I knew I wanted to read the second book …

Nevertell- Katharine Orton

Nevertell takes us to a Slavic landscape like the snowy mythology woven tales of Sophie Anderson, and will also speak to those who enjoyed the Scandinavian mythology inspired quests within Edith Pattou’s North Child and Kiran Millwood Hargraves’ The Way Past Winter. However, what’s very interesting and fresh is the resetting within a 20th century …