currently reading "The Little Grey Girl" by Celine Kiernan
A monthly feature where I do a round up of the books I’m most excited to read (or have already read and think you should be excited for). Fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books are all included. Fiction A Ladder to the Sky (9781784161019) by John Boyne I’ve heard nothing but good about this from other […]
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I originally noticed Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ as retold and beautifully illustrated by Sabina Radeva when it came onto Kickstarter a couple of years ago and was intrigued. This takes the theory of evolution as set out by Charles Darwin and simplifies it, to a certain extent, to make it accessible to […]
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I was so late to the VOX party amongst my colleagues, and I have no idea why? It hits all the right targets for me a feminist dystopia looking at what could feasibly happen if we extrapolate from current trends. Vox is set in an imaginable near-future where the ‘moral’ right has transformed the USA […]
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The Woman in Black has always been a book that has been floating around my head as a book to read, talked about, mentioned when a good ghost story was required, but that I had never read, not even after the film with Daniel Radcliffe in it. This blog gives me an excellent excuse to […]
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It’s a bit cliched and I don’t often say it, so here goes. This is an instant classic and will be read for decades as a favourite of adults and children who will go on to introduce it to their children. From the moment I started reading this I was in love, so much so […]
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