Hello! Back in the early December rush, this review filled an unexpected gap. I alwways felt it deserved a full span of days, so here it...

I wanted to take more time to read this lovely book, a collection (with amendments and additions) of Katherine Langrish’s posts i...

One day, some years after Adam and Eve had been cast out of Paradise, the Lord God came to visit them in the cool of the evening. By now, A...

Writers make books but, equally, they are created by the books they read: stories that generate that spark of recognition, a sense of ...

At about the age of seven I discovered Matthew Arnold's poem The Forsaken Merman. It's a romantic poem based on a Scandinavian leg...

'I' ve confessed to everything and I’d like to be hanged. Now, if you please.’ For many years I’ve been telling folk tales a...

Ever since reading her first novel ‘The Traitor Game’, I’ve been quite a fan of B.R. Collins, who writes fast-moving, dark YA thrille...

Dystopian and post-apocalyptic YA novels are in vogue right now, in accordance with the flowing tides of the Zeitgeist.  I’m writing one...