My Lockdown Books – Page 4 – Pictures and Conversations

My Lockdown Books: Thirty Eight

I have come to the conclusion that Meg Rosoff is a genius. I’ve been reading her books since How I Live Now which I really…

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel is a book I had to read and my heart sank when I saw it. I was judging for the Carnegie…

Seriously Sassy is the first in a trilogy by Maggi Gibson. The books are bouncy and fun but touch on some serious issues. They're also…

My favourite of the late Mal Peet's superlative novels without any shadow of a doubt is Tamar. The review below has appeared elsewhere but I…

Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. But Delderton Hall is…

Maggie McKinley comes from a high-rise flat in one of Glasgow's overspill estates. James Fraser is from a town house in the Georgian New Town…

This is a piece I wrote a couple of years ago. I don't think I can improve upon it. To the Edge of the…

I try very hard not to say that I like a book just because I do but Sally's Family by Gwendoline Courtney falls into that…

Garth Nix is best known for his fantasy books. Fantasy really isn't my kind of genre. The problem is that Garth Nix is my kind…

I decided to treat myself to a re-read of the Ishmael trilogy by the award-winning Michael Gerard Bauer. Why? Well, I don't really need a…