Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Trouble with Tattle-Tails is a delightful book. I couldn’t resist it when the publishers and Netgalley offered it. I read it on my iPad, for the full effect of the colour illustrations. It also gave me a T for my
The Ickabog is a new story that J K Rowling is releasing (May-July 2020) chapter by chapter on a website. She describes it as developed from a story she told her children when they were younger, and they helped her
This is the second in the Zoe & Zak series, which I have as a box set of the first three books, having read the third one first Zoe and Zak and the Tiger Temple, and the first one a
The Blurb Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Characters from books literally
Imagine a world where Christianity didn’t take off and the predominant religion in Britain was based on the Norse Gods. I must admit I’ve always enjoyed these parallel universe type of stories, and Francesca Simon cleverly works in the Norse