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This is a zingy, colourful comic strip style look at the stories behind the invention of a range...
I have thoroughly enjoyed Ms Hall’s three previous novels and was looking forward to reading this...
Mania is a relentless satire on the drift towards a rejection of intelligence and the...
This is the first in a proposed series of books for young teenagers featuring 12 year old mortal...
A saccharine sweet story for the ballet-obsessed boy or girl. Nine-year-old Yara is desperate to...
I was sent this to review without having seen a first look so had no idea what to expect. 9 year...
A fantasy tale, involving children in two cities of the island Ramoa, inward looking and...
It’s a young adult fantasy with monsters and vampires, gods and humans. It’s not really my thing...
The prologue introduces us to Irish mythology, a land of witches wolf-heroes, monsters and...
The hero of the story is Rayleigh Mann, a 12 year old Londoner with attitude, a busy Mama, a...
Dumped by her boyfriend, James, who is clearly A Cad and estranged from her best friend Lucy, who...
I had never read anything by this author, but the first look was intriguing so I used points to...
The book tells the story of a disastrous fire that destroys a Greek forest and the people and...
Sweeping from segregated Virginia in the sixties to New York at the beginning of the...
Reading the blurb, I wasn’t expecting to like this book. I am by many decades, not the target...
It’s almost unfair to even try and review this book, as I am very very far from being the target...
I am in my 70s and definitely not the target audience for this YA novel. However I throughly...
This is a a bright and colourful book to be read with young children. It’s all about read and...
I have not read anything by this author before, and it wouldn’t normally be my first choice of...
This is a lovely large format illustrated book to encourage young children ( especially boys) to...
I really enjoyed the first look at this YA novel. Standard trope of two best friends, Adnan and...
Almost-13-year-old nature lover ( and would-be mechanic) Robyn lives in Bletchley Park at the...
11-year-old Bob and his best friend Malcolm have formed probably-never-to-be-famous rock band...
Take a Bite is marketed at children but I think would be of interest to people of all ages. It’s...
Five Little Penguins is a well presented book with charming illustrations and plenty of small...
In terms of enjoyment this is definitely a novel of two halves. Love the first half which is set...
This is a very well written book aimed at older children but with much to enjoy for adults as...
This is a first novel by children’s entertainer, Stephen Mulhern writing with Tom Easton. The...
17 year-old Ivy was abandoned by her mother shortly after her birth but with a clear indication...
I thought this was quite a slow starter but once it took off it raced along full of despair and...
I was quite taken by the first look at this book. The cover and the blurb emphasise its Gothic...
As an ardent bibliophile I knew from the moment I saw the cover and the title that I would want...
I was enthusiastic about the first couple of chapters. Everything is perfect, the future is...
We open with the decline of migratory birds as their food source and welcoming environments...
This book is tremendous fun and should appeal to readers of all ages.As all of us have been...
Enduring a long delay at JFK a not particularly successful writer recognises Jeff, a clearly much...
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