April 01, 2010A year ago a new editor joined Oxford University Press. She was young, energetic, full of enthusiasm and on the...
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October 29, 2009I have a confession to make. When I picked this book off my pile of review books my heart sunk....
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October 20, 2009Now, there’s horror that is scary, and there’s horror that is stomach-churning. This first volume in the Monstrumologist series is...
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October 19, 2009I once had a friend tell me that, when evaluating cookbooks, it’s important to not expect every recipe to be...
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October 07, 2009As ‘what-ifs’ go for the starting point of a novel sequence, this one’s a doosie.
Assume that Darwin not only came...
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October 01, 2009Dark Visions by L.J.Smith comprises three novels, The Strange Power, The Possessed and The Passion, all of which were originally...
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September 17, 2009I read Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles on the train to a children’s writers’ event in London and then on the...
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September 11, 2009Every so often I have a break from reading (and writing) young adult fantasy to read something else and this...
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September 10, 2009Wicked:Witch and Curse is something of a double whammy of a book. For starters, it comprises the first two novels,...
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August 31, 2009Stephanie Meyer seems to have plunged us all into a craving for YA Urban Fantasy with brooding, mysterious males...
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