If I close my eyes, and breath to the rolling rhythm of the sea, I can still remember that long ago day.
Washed up on the shores of ancient Wales, the boy had no home, no memory and no name…
He was determined to find all three.
Years after he washed up on the Welsh coastline, Emrys and [...]

Darkness. Two hours to midnight.

Marcus Sedgwick’s books have been amongst my favourite discoveries of the year, he is such a master at conjuring up a wonderful atmosphere for his stories to take place in.
So, it would seem then, leaving it unread on my shelves for a number of months, would be an error on my [...]

“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one.”
How to go about writing a review on a book rightfully considered to be a classic (and not just in its natural home genre of Sci-Fi) Well the only way is to treat it like any other book and [...]

“What the hell are you?” demanded the squirrel.
When a pair of fugitive Scottish thistle fairies end up transplanted to Manhattan by mistake, both the Big Apple and the Little People have a lot of adjusting to do.
Heather and Morag just want to start the first radical fairy punk rock band, but first they’ll have [...]

It came crackling over the hills, like an invisible fog.
It’s almost embarrassing to call myself a Pratchett fan and admit to the amount of time this one has been sitting unread on my shelf. So as such, I am not going to admit to this one being on my shelves since its release in 2004….
Thankfully, [...]

He didn’t see her; but he heard her voice.
Sometimes a good book comes completely out of nowhere, you pick up a random book in a store and it turns out to be an absolute corker! This was my experience with Tim Bowler’s Starseeker. I had heard good things about his books, but nothing beyond that, [...]

Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can [...]

When Ian came into Kerry’s room to ask a favour, it never occurred to her that her four-year-old brother could ask her to do something that might get her killed.

I came across this one whilst searching out reads for the Mythopoeic Awards Challenge and I spotted Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde.
Now, I had [...]

It was the winner of the 1998 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Children) so it should not come as a surprise that I am reading these books as part of the Mythopoeic Reading Challenge.
They won the award as a trilogy so only counts as one book towards that challenge, and so short are the individual books (around [...]

At around midnight with work looming the next day, I turned to close the book and made the mistake of looking a the chapter list. Ooh the interview…. Ooh Get a Clue… An hour later…

First up I should disclose I am a Harry Potter fan, and have been in, around or lurking in the fandom [...]