Wendy

This is the last book in this most entertaining series about Edgar the raven and the mad cap family the Otherhands.

Otherhand castle is up for sale because Valevine has finally run out of money. Edgar is away on raven buisness, but in the meantime a little ravenlet called Rob appears!

Solstice and Cudweed decide to try and help their parents and save the castle with horrendous results.

The year 2073 a journalist called Eric Seven is sent by his author a place called Blessed Island because there are
rumours that the sun never sets and the people live forever!

Eric and Merle are the main characters who in another life were king and Queen who were very much in love and
were parted in horrific circumstances. This is the story of their search for each other spanning several centuries. A very unusual book with a pagan and gothic element to the story and written in seven sections.

This is a very good story written for older children with a very strong message about life and the consequences of your actions.

Jack is the main character and he believes in luck with the flick of a coin. Nicola Morgan has written the story in two slighly different ways so that the reader can flick a coin and read the version the coin depicts, or read both versions and pick the one that they enjoyed most which I am sure most readers will do.

I have not read any contemporary poetry before so this book was a revelation.The subjects are diverse and intensly
moving.

Moris Farhi touches all our raw emotions especially love in it's many forms. Some of the language in his poems is quite erotic but in this context never crude. The use of one word under the other is very effective because it enables
the reader to focus on exactly what is being written.

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.

This is the latest book in the Edgar the Raven series and in my opinion the funniest book so far.

Edgar is a very bored Raven because he is longing for something to happen; so a trip to the circus and a Fortune Teller called Madame Zora, who comes to stay at Castle Otherhand, make events take an unexpected turn!

I love this book with all it's odd ball characters, especially Valevine who is head of the household and an inventor. Edgar's forays into the larder when cook was not looking is hilarious.

A ghost story written for older children about two boys called Elliot and Ben who have moved into an old house which their father is renovating.

This story chilled me to the bone becouse of the feeling of fear and menace that runs through the whole book and the sense of evil which seems to be everywhere.

This is a story about adoption and the custody battle for baby Keefer whose parents died in a car crash. On the whole I enjoyed the book once I had sorted out the family relationships. It was a bit slow to begin with and parts of it I found quite boring but as the story enfolds it improves enormously.

An intriguing Victorian novel about a girl called Esperanza Gorst, who is employed as a lady's maid to Baroness Tansor but, Esperanza has been sent by her guardian to perform certain tasks.

I enjoyed this book very much becouse as the plot enfolds I gradually learned more about Esperanza's former life and the reasons for her being there. The main themes of the book are obsessive love which affects future generations. Murder and fraud are skilfully woven into an intricate plot that will keep the pages turning until the end.