Pen friends

Letters to a Dog by Piers Torday, illustrated by Alice McKinley, is a sensitive and often funny story that is skilfully told and includes plentiful and lively illustrations 

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Magic realism or just an adult fairy story?

In The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago, the author is having fun and there’s definitely a gentle undertone, even a sort of nostalgic romance at work

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Adrift on the sea of imagination

Captain Toby by Satoshi Kitamura takes us on a trip to someone else’s world of dreams

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A thrilling trip to Greeneland

The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene is a spy thriller that is perfectly pitched tor his wartime audience 

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What would you check out?

Llama Library by Holly Ryan, illustrated by Ella Bailey extends the idea of lending books to lending out other desirable things

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Speaking truth to power

State of Ridicule: A history of satire in English literature by Dan Sperrin is a huge book in every sense of term: huge in ambition, huge in scholarship, huge in interest, huge in readability and even huge in size.

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