Saturday 31 March 2012

REVIEW: HIT LIST by Jack Heath

HIT LIST by Jack Heath Usborne Amazon link Ash and Ben are teenage thieves. With Ash in the field and techno-wizard Ben behind her at ever...

Sunday 25 March 2012

SPRING ARMADILLO

The Spring Armadillo has emerged from its cosy armadillo house to tell you about books.  (This means that the new issue of Armadillo M...

A BOY AND A BEAR (AND A HERMIT) IN A BOOK

Probably the greatest stage direction of all time is this, from Shakespeare’s  A Winter’s Tale : [Exit, pursued by a bear] That genius M...

Tuesday 13 March 2012

GUESTPOST: Miriam Halahmy - Writing a cycle of books – not a trilogy, not a series

Today I want to wish a very happy publication day to ILLEGAL by Miriam Halahmy.  ILLEGAL is the follow up to Miriam's wonderful first ...

Friday 9 March 2012

INTERVIEW: Richard Knight - THE COURT PAINTER'S APPRENTICE

"Paint what you see, Johann, not what you think you see." So says the court painter to his apprentice. But Johann possesses mor...

Thursday 1 March 2012

Laugh your way through WORLD BOOK DAY: Three Funny Books

Today is...  ...so go tell all your books you love them and give them a cuddle. That’s something e-readers aren’t great for isn’t it ...