Saturday, April 1, 2023

On the Coaxing of Horror: some ghost stories by Robert Westall

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I have long wanted to read the shorter supernatural fiction of Robert Westall, ever since becoming aware of the M.R. Jamesian influence on A...
Monday, March 20, 2023

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Super Questers: The Case of the Missing Memory  by Lisa Moss and Dr. Thomas Bernard; illustrated Amy Willcox (QuestFriendz, 2023) The Eighti...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

"Liberating the world of rats"

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Moonflight  by Gill Lewis; illustrated Pippa Curnick (David Fickling 2023) When Tolkien began The Hobbit   (according to his own letter to W...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Read for Empathy

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The Read for Empathy Collection 2023 Personal choice:  The Boy who Grew a Tree  by Polly Ho-Yen; illustrated by Sojung Kim-McCarthy (Knights...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Sweets for Sad-Souls

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The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair by Natasha Hastings Natasha Hastings does not pull her punches.  The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The ...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Dodging About

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Talking to Jan Mark  by Neil Philip, March 1983 (TES Interview) It is New Year's Day 2023. Jan Mark would have been 80 this year. I like...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Miraculous beyond measure: Themes and Thinking in S.F. Said's "Tyger"

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Nothing is ordinary,” said the tyger. “Everything is extraordinary. In all of infinity and eternity, that flower exists only in this world; ...