If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting!  Yesterday I rhapsodised over a romance featuring (not involvingtheres quite a difference there in terms of both semantics and legality) a mischievous pug called Tank. The book that found itself...

Earlier this year I read Stephen Mays Life! Death! Prizes! (review) a title that refers to protagonist Billys nickname for those trashy magazines they stock by the counters of supermarkets and newsagents, the ones filled with stories about bizarre diseases, disturbingly weird relationships and twins separated at birth, and which are typically...

  Dear'This is Not a Drill, This is a tough letter to write, and Im sorry not to be doing this in person, except, you know, youre a book, so I thought this might be a nicer let down than just saying this to your cover. Maybe. Ive been wanting to say this since a few pages in, but you seem like a nice book, and I thought that maybe, if...

'(probably contains spoilers, so stop reading if that sort of thing bothers you) If Ive learned anything from books this year, its that if humanity as we know it is going to come to an end, its going to be kids that are the helm of it all. Liz Jensens'The Uninvited bundles up all of the psychotic adolescence of'Lord of the...

Yesterday I looked at Sarah Waters'The Night Watch, in which a reverse chronology storytelling approach is used as a device to mirror the confusion and disconnectedness felt by the characters. By beginning the story with its end, it seems that the intention is to create a sense of un-anticipation, of pointlessness, of inappropriate awareness of these...

Juggling three items at once isnt such a bit deal, according to Sullivan Mintz, but four? Thats something.'The Boy in the Box: Master Melvilles Medicine Show is the most recent outing from best-selling middle grade author Cary Fagan, and like its juggling protagonist Sullivan, it finds itself with plenty of balls in the air. The thing is...