Book Festivals and Book Launches
Over the last few weeks I've met and listened to about as many authors as I could cope with! Without exception they've been lovely people…
Over the last few weeks I've met and listened to about as many authors as I could cope with! Without exception they've been lovely people…
A couple of weeks ago I was reading an article in a professional journal written by someone I know in the world of publishing. It…
My next set of reviews will be in The Scotsman on Saturday 27. June 2009. I hope you find them interesting!
I've been waiting years to read this book, having loved the first two parts of the series, Airborn and Skybreaker. Starclimber tells the story of…
A couple of days ago, I picked up my proof copy of Lifegame by Alison Allen-Gray meaning to flick through it. I started at the…
Elizabeth Laird often writes about subjects in which I am not at all interested. But that never discourages me from reading her books. They are…
My spring round-up of children's books will be published in The Scotsman on Saturday 4. April.
A while back I promised that I’d write more about the newer children’s books I love. As my bookshelves prove, there are many of them…
Hot off the press at Macmillan is this fascinating and engaging first novel. It tells the story of seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove growing up in Victorian…
Ages ago I wrote about Anne of the Island and said that it was one of my desert island books. I chose the books in…