Ninjas, Dragons and Dodgy Internet Dates!

I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading over the past two weeks, but I’ve not got around to posting anything about it on here until now - been a bit busy writing! My first read was ‘Across the Nightingale Floor’ by Lian Hearn.

This first book in the ‘Tales of the Otori’ […]

City of Secrets

City of Secrets by Mary Hoffman is the fourth in the Stravaganza sequence. If you scan back through my blog you will see that I’ve read the other three over the past year and I must say that it was a treat to return to Talia and pick up the story from where it […]

The KLQ is back in town.

I went to Broxbourne yesterday for the London final of this year’s Kids Literature Quiz, compared by the inimitable Wayne Mills. Once again, Sue Shaper did a fantastic job of organising the event, though if it grows any bigger, they’re going to need a bigger hall! I didn’t count how many teams there […]