Before The Shadow of the Wind

Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is a gripping romp of a read; it’s just not yet by an author who has learned his craft to quite the level he goes onto just a few years later.

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Off to market

Mama’s Special Wonton Soup by Wai Mei Wong, illustrated by Xin Yue Zhu gently builds the plot as well as encouraging prediction and memory skills along the way. 

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Before Mrs Dalloway, there was Violet

The Life of Violet: three early stories by Virginia Woolf (edited by Urmila Seshagiri) were written in 1907 when she was twenty-five-years-old, eight years before her first novel

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Dinosaurs: take two

The publication of the beautiful paperback edition of A First Book of Dinosaurs by Simon Mole, illustrated by Matt Hunt gives us the excuse we need to republish the review of the first edition we did back in 2023

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A treasure trove of inspiration

For any lover of children’s literature Worlds of Wonder: celebrating the great classics of children’s literature edited by Daniel Hahn offers a truly mouth-watering prospect. 

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A memoir that makes no concessions

Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Time by the Sea by Ronald Blythe, an infuriating and frustrating book shot through with beauty. 

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Inspiring Young Readers

Come into the wonderful world of children's literature.

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Inspiring Older Readers

Ideas for reading and collecting books of all kinds.

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