When 13-year-old Valor is sent to jail, she couldn’t be happier. Demidova’s prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor’s twin sister, Sasha, is serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape…from the inside. Never mind that no one has escaped […]
Saturday snippets 9 September 2017
September 9, 2017 By 8 Comments
{Practising} habits. Water, exercise, creativity. If I manage to cement these in for another week I’ll add something else – maybe that I clear the kitchen before internet? (This might mean I mainly clear it before bed, but that works too.) {Reading} actually I’ve stalled. I’ve been reading Lynda LaPlante Good Friday which is about […]
Perfectly Norman by Tom Percival
August 7, 2017 By 1 Comment
Buy at Amazon (affiliate link). I think it’s fair to say we are Tom Percival fans. We’ve several of his books on our shelves, including the very limited edition Hugo and the Imaginary Zoo. Perfectly Norman is a wonderful addition to his range, and I’m thrilled to be joining the blog tour. The premise is […]
Tell it to the Moon – guest post on home schooling by author Siobhan Curham
August 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
As regular readers will know, most of my children are home educated, and despite growing numbers of children educated outside school, it’s a topic rarely touched upon in fiction. So when I was offered Tell it to the Moon to read and review, and I realised it included a home schooled teenager, I jumped at […]
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
June 16, 2017 By 1 Comment
Wishbones by Virginia Macgregor
May 30, 2017 By 3 Comments
Buy at Amazon (affiliate link) Feather Tucker has two wishes: 1)To get her mum healthy again 2) To win the Junior UK swimming championships When Feather comes home on New Year’s Eve to find her mother – one of Britain’s most obese women- in a diabetic coma, she realises something has to be done to […]
The Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat by Coral Rumble and Charlotte Cooke
May 5, 2017 By 1 Comment
The Woman Who Met Her Match – Fiona Gibson.
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The Inventory 3: Black Knight by Andy Briggs.
April 22, 2017 By 6 Comments
Buy at Amazon (affiliate link) Dev and his friends are back with more mind-bending tech in this third instalment of the Inventory series. This time they are tasked with training new recruits to defend the Inventory’s incredible inventions. But will they be ready for action before Shadow Helix’s next strike? First of all, why not […]
