Out of Nowhere by Paul Dowswell
You may remember that I posted an interview with Paul Dowswell the other week in which I mentioned his most recent book which has been…
You may remember that I posted an interview with Paul Dowswell the other week in which I mentioned his most recent book which has been…
I’ve known Paul Dowswell long enough to have forgotten exactly when we met. It was at an Edinburgh International Book Festival when I was chairing…
I only meant, last night, to read the first few pages of The Enigma Game to get a feel for it but I ended up…
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…
The time has come, as you surely knew it would, for me to share this one from my collection. There's nothing random about Nancy Calls…
Around half of the books I own in hard copy (so about 1000) were published for children and teenagers. They're an odd mixture of the…
The book I most associate Judith Kerr with is When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and it’s another of the very few primary school class books…
Trudy Takes Charge is the first of ten books about the eponymous heroine. They were published over the course of twenty-one years, from the late…
Of all the children’s authors I collect, Dorita Fairlie Bruce is my favourite. In a large part I think it’s because she’s a Scot and…