Bloomsbury

"I was covered in blood when the police found me", not the traditional opener for a teen novel! but Devlin throws the reader straight into the thick of things in this novel: a fantastically consuming story that's a cross between the Twilight saga and TV show Teen Wolf.

The characters are compelling and instantly relatable and you feel complete empathy with the lead character Avery, a teenage girl whose parents have just been murdered, and life thrown upside-down as she has to leave her home in the woods to live with her grandmother whom she hardly knows.

Sarah is your typical high-school student, although slightly obsessed with the size of her nose. Kirsten is her perfect-looking best friend. When new guy Rock starts their school, Kirsten makes a bee-line for him and manages to convince Sarah to help her win him over, however Sarah secretly wants him for herself, but cant face hurting Kirsten's feelings. The story follows Sarahs' fight with herself over her loyalty to Kirsten, her feelings for Rock, and her sense of right and wrong. Which is more important?

The Aviary Gate seems like a novel that could be a bit like Marmite! Love it or Hate it! I'm not one for historical novels but went along with this one, with an open mind. I'm glad I did! I felt very Marmite-ish about it, too. As in there were parts I thought brilliant and parts that just... weren't! Hickman has written a book that lusciously describes Constantinople in 1599, with the silks, perfumed gardens, jewels etc... You can almost feel and see the world she was trying to create, it's stunning and utterly involving. ..read more

This is Historical fiction at it's best,an extremely well written and exciting book.Paul Dowsell writes in a very
adult way and he does not spare his readers feelings.The Reader is entering the violent world of the 16th century
where childhood is nonexistent and everyone must look after themselves.

Faustin Charles and Michael Terry certainly have a partnership made just for children that is very special. Faustin's writing and Michael's illustrations are perfect for each of these mini books in this box set.

Each book covers a different subject - in this case, Sounds, Food, Animals, Numbers, colours and Words, with the stories being simple and easy to grasp. The format is a simple mini card book - excellent for tiny fingers to hold.

I highly recommend this for the under 3s.

Anna Currey has beautifully illustrated this book by Gillian shields - it is a warm book with rhyming couplets that tells of the joy of welcoming a baby into the world and of its potential. A lovely book for the very young - of gentle adventure and love. I recommend it.

This is a book for children from 4 months upwards with a story on one side of the book and on the other a face showing the emotion of the childs reaction to the story.

This is a beautiful board book illustrated by Anna Currey in very warm gentle colours and written by Gillian Shields, encouraging children in what they need to do before they actually climb into bed.

I highly recommend it.

Although this is a children's book, I enjoyed it. I identified well with the characters, and enjoyed following No's story and learning about her past.

The main character, Lou, made me laugh with her racing mind and over analysis of every situation, which could have been annoying in an adult character, but fitted her teenage personality well.

I think I would enjoy other books by the same author, and think she would do very well writing a children's book series.

This is an exciting story about a girl called Mary Boulton who is running away from her brothers - in - law, who want to bring her to justice becouse she shot her husband!

I could almost feel Mary's fear and desperation - nearly bordering on madness as she kept running for her life.

This is a poignant story in so many ways with wives
in those days having no rights, and in some cases they were treated worse than their animals - so Mary had no
defense.

A well thought out plot with plenty of drama, and beautiful descriptive writing and a little light relief.