Our Sister Again- Sophie Cameron featuring Q&A

Imagine a world where loss is only temporary, that you can be rebuilt from your digital footprint and 'returned' in android form to your loved ones, a world where no families have to be torn apart by grief, no one has to lose anyone ever again. Sounds rather tempting at first doesn't it. Many books …

Scrumptious Stories: Mystery of the Nightwatchers- AM Howell & Crumpets

AM Howell returned for a third publication earlier this year with Mystery Of the Nightwatchers which sees a young teen Nancy return to her place of birth amidst the drama of the 1910 passing of Halley’s Comet and uncovers many secrets in the town and her family with little hints back at the previous books. …

The Silent stars go by- Sally Nicholls

Broke my heart over and over a million times how beautiful and heart wrenching this tale is. The interwar years is a particularly fascinating era for me, but is usually explored looking through the luxurious and Americanised lens of Jazz and Flappers or come the Thirties, Depression and Misery, the immediate post-war period and its …

Murder in Midwinter – Fleur Hitchcock

Each time I discover another book from Fleur Hitchcock I find that I become an even bigger fan of her style and approach to creating modern adventure thrillers bringing the adventures and danger of classic tales bang up to date, to be accessible and resonating with modern children as much as the classics offered their …

Rules For Vanishing – Kate Alice Marshall

Ok, I like to think that I’m actually pretty good with horror, I admittedly don’t enjoy zombie or those possessed doll/orphan/foster child type films but vampires/monsters, psychological horror, ghost stories, urban legend type horrors have always been fun and not scary for me.... until now. Kate Alice Marshall you shook me with this book because …

Chinglish- Sue Cheung

My goodness, this is such a different and interesting teen book, perfectly placed in that awkward inbetweeny years of not really knowing oneself but hoping for meaning. Taking the diary format as an outlet of adolescent frustrations and aspirations it will remind adult readers of the younger diaries of Adrian Mole, and younger readers of …

The Girl With Space in Her Heart -Lara Williamson

This is not quite what I was expecting and I think this added to my enjoyment, I cared enough about the characters to laugh and cry and particular points and was swept into the drama of it all. I’m not usually one for contemporary unless it has a twist, especially of fantasy, but this has …