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YA REVIEW - 'Tomorrow, When The War Began', John Marsden (Quercus, 2011)...
When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong — their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been...
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Friday Book Bargains #11
I’ll try not to mention the fact that it’s Friday 13thtoday. Or that my inbox stood at ‘1666 unread’ for a brief period this morning until I went on a mass deleting spree. These events will have...
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YA REVIEW ROUND UP
This is the first mini review-type round up that I've done. I've avoided them up until now because I'd rather just write a full review to do a book justice. However, over the summer, my reading habits...
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YA REVIEW - 'Pantomime', Laura Lam (Strange Chemistry, 2013)
R. H. Ragona’s Circus of Magic is the greatest circus of Ellada. Nestled among the glowing blue Penglass—remnants of a mysterious civilisation long gone—are wonders beyond the wildest imagination. It’s...
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Friday Book Bargains #12
Hola. Happy Friday etc etc. I’m going to keep it (reasonably) brief this week because it is Friday and I am exhausted. And I should imagine you are too. A nice selection of interesting titles this...
View ArticleMy YA Confessions #4 - Giving up is hard to do...
I have feelings. Mixed ones. And they're made even more complicated by the fact that I feel guilty about having them in the first place.Yes, I'm talking about giving up on books before the end.I'm...
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Past on Paper: 1970s YA REVIEW - 'Koh Tabu', Ann Kelley (Oxford University...
Fourteen-year-old Bonnie MacDonald couldn't be more excited for a camping trip on an island off the coast of Thailand with her fellow Amelia Earhart Cadets-the daughters of the men and women stationed...
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I Need to Get Out More #4 - FILM REVIEW: How I Live Now
These days, about 90% of my movie-going habits consist of Saturday morning trips to the local old school cinema to watch the kids flick with the cheap tickets. So for me to go and see a new release, on...
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Friday Book Bargains #13
A bit of a mixed bag this week. Books, obviously but also some beautiful things that aren’t books too. Just to keep you on your toes…I’m going to keep mentioning The Book People because I love their...
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YA REVIEW - 'Drummer Girl', Bridget Tyler (Templar Publishing 2013)
It was supposed to be the summer of her life. Instead, 17-year-old Lucy finds her best friend Harper shot dead in an LA swimming pool. How did it come to this? Lucy Gosling is the drummer in Crush, a...
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Friday Book Bargains #14
Sorry, it’s a day late this week – my brain is still in school holiday mode and I reckon it’s going to take me at least a fortnight to catch up again. So time for me to bring you all the usual book...
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I Need to Get Out More #5 - Wood Green Literary Festival
I don't normally manage to get out to literary or author events too often, so I was especially pleased to make it to a couple of events taking place as part of the Wood Green Literary Festival a few...
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Interview: Bridget Tyler, Author of 'Drummer Girl'
You may remember my review of Drummer Girl from a weeks back - this addictive tale of a group of London school girls winging their way to LA to take part in a reality show is a great page turner with...
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Friday Book Bargains #15
I’ve decided to take a break from writing about Christmas because that’s all I’ve been doing workwise for the last couple of weeks. So instead of thinking about what I’m going to buy other people, I’ve...
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Past on Paper - 1940s Review - 'That Burning Summer', Lydia Syson (Hot Key...
Romney Marsh, July 1940. When invasion threatens, you have to grow up quickly. Sixteen-year-old Peggy has been putting on a brave face since the fall of France, but now the enemy is overhead, and the...
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Guest Post: Jeff Norton, Author of the MetaWars Series
A little while ago, I reviewed the first book in the MetaWars series, a interesting and fast-moving take on the dystopian genre. Well, now that series is coming to an end with the release of the fourth...
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Friday Book Bargains #16
Happy New Year folks. Sorry my salutations are a bit late, but the New Year doesn’t officially start until the 10th January in my house. This is the day after my eldest daughter’s birthday. Yes, I have...
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It's been a while...
It really has.I've been wanting to get back to blogging again for ages, but there's always been a combination of things stopping me, the main one being my own ability to procrastinate at all costs.And...
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Recent Review Round Up
In lieu of about six month's worth of reviews, I bring you one big post containing some of the stuff I've enjoyed recently. You may have noticed that this is not a 'YA Review Round Up' because it is...
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REVIEW: 'Murder Most Unladylike' - Robin Stevens (Corgi, 2014)
Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you...
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