Surviving mostly on her own whilst her father tends to her seriously ill mother, Zoe is lonely. Then when her best friend announces she has to move away, Zoe is feeling even more alone.
Rather than stay in the house alone, she often spends her evenings wandering the neighbourhood. Anything is better than that empty house. [...]

Do you believe in faeries? Not the soft, gentle kind, but the sinister, feral kind – the ones that wreak havoc on everything in their path…

About the Book
Emma Morley and Dexter Meyhew, meet properly for the first time on the 15th July 1988, the night of their graduation from University.
We meet them again, on the same day each year for the next twenty years.
Each chapter of the book, covers Emma and Dexter’s lives on that day, following their lives, [...]

You won’t believe this but it’s true. I wrote a story called “The Savage” about a savage kid that lived under the ruined chapel in Burgess Woods, and the kid that came to life in the real world.
About the Book
Imagine you wrote a story and that story came true. This is exactly what happens to [...]

Fresh from yesterday’s interview the author of The Privateer, Danielle Thorne, returns to Bart’s Bookshelf today, to tell us about The Queen Anne’s Revenge and her legendary captain, Blackbeard

It’s a beautiful day at sea. The sun is warm, the breeze whipping through the canvas sails. You hear the spotter’s cry and look over your shoulder. [...]

Welcome to my first author interview! The lucky victim volunteer is Kristen Callender, and she is here to talk about her new book, The Truth Lies in the Dark. And I’d like to thank her, and welcome her to the site.
Hi there, Kristin would you please briefly introduce yourself [...]

"You jam on the brakes and stop the ute right at your front door. You jump out. Not for the first time you run into a house that could be full of guns, with death waiting for you. You don’t even think of that until you’re crossing the threshold …
…You already know what you’re [...]

There are places where kids like me go.

This was one of those bookshop finds that appeared to have everything going for it, great cover, intriguing plot, and it was nominated for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2009.
Since her mother’s death (from a drugs overdose) when she was seven, 15 year-old Jem has kept a secret. [...]

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
Last year when I was really starting to find my feet in the book blogosphere, this book was starting to get some serious coverage, and very complimentary comments, and these only gained momentum, for it’s US release date last October.
Well here in the UK, [...]

The snow came down so thickly, it formed fragile snowballs in the air that tumbled and melted as soon as they landed on the horses lined up along the dock.

This one was my Christmas present to myself, and I’m so glad I snapped up the limited edition version, as I feel it captures the ‘mood’ [...]