Erin
Erin Britton is a full-time PhD student and a part-time bookseller. Luckily, these two occupations have proved mutually beneficial – Erin has amassed an impressive library of Roman history books and could engage in a lengthy and detailed conversation on the matter should any customers ever actually ask her. While Erin’s first love is cult fiction, she also enjoys science fiction, graphic novels, children’s fantasy and adventure, and Tudor history books.
Zom-B Underground, by Darren Shan
Reviewed on February 2, 2013
B had a hard life and death certainly isn’t proving any easier. Raised by a violent racist father, plagued by moral uncertainties and in serious danger of failing to gain any GCSEs, a zombie apocalypse could perhaps have brought a little life relief to B’s life but that’s unfortunately not how things turned out. Following [...]
Who Could That Be at This Hour?, by Lemony Snicket
Reviewed on November 5, 2012
Back before he had even an inkling of the Series of Unfortunate Events that he would become embroiled in, Lemony Snicket was a keen young graduate of a nameless, mysterious academy who was anxious to get on with his apprenticeship. Well, that might be stretching things a bit since he had, after all, only chosen [...]
Young Sherlock Holmes: Snake Bite, by Andrew Lane
Reviewed on October 2, 2012
One minute young Sherlock Holmes is sitting down for a quiet read in his uncle’s study in Farnham, the next he’s waking up aboard the Gloria Scott and is partway through a voyage to China. Fortunately seafaring is just one of the many walks of life where being a good violinist will stand you in [...]
Zom-B, by Darren Shan
Reviewed on September 27, 2012
It was the darkest, most wretched hour of the night when the dead began to walk in the tiny Irish village of Pallaskenry. While the luckiest locals were killed in their sleep, many were not so fortunate and met with agonising, torturous deaths at the hands of demented zombie hordes. In a matter of hours the [...]
Ratburger, by David Walliams
Reviewed on September 19, 2012
Zoe has an exceptionally difficult life for such a small girl. Ever since her Dad lost his job at the ice-cream factory he’s been sad and spends all his time in the pub. Even worse, he somehow found the time to marry the monstrous Sheila. Sheila is the stepmother from hell: she does nothing all [...]
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
Reviewed on August 8, 2012
Coraline and her parents have moved to a new house. Well, part of a new house anyway. Dotty former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible live on the ground floor with their collection of geriatric Highland terriers. They enjoy eating boiled sweets and reading tea leaves. A crazy old man with a big moustache lives [...]
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian, by Eoin Colfer
Reviewed on July 18, 2012
After the mental and physical exertions he endured during the Atlantis Complex, Artemis Fowl is in need of therapy. Well, that’s what Doctor Argon thinks anyway. Fortunately, the treatment isn’t a total loss since, between wittily identifying ink blots, Artemis learns some interesting information about his family history and about his ancestors’ complex relationship with [...]
Kidnap in the Caribbean, by Lauren St John
Reviewed on July 12, 2012
After all the excitement of her adventures during Dead Man’s Cove, Laura Marlin is anxious to get away for a relaxing break. It seems that she might be in with a chance when the Fantasy Travel Company arrives in town in order to publicise a lucky draw to win a luxury cruise and a week’s [...]
The Mystery of the Invisible Spy, by Helen Moss
Reviewed on July 10, 2012
There’s a stranger in Castle Key and Emily Wild is convinced that he is a spy. Well, probably a spy but possible a birdwatcher. Fortunately, her best friends Scott and Jack are spending their school holidays on the island and so the three of them, ably assisted by Emily’s dog Drift, mount an investigation into [...]
The Fear, by Charlie Higson
Reviewed on November 2, 2011
Charlie Higson’s The Fear follows DogNut, last seen in The Dead, and his Tower of London crew as they set off towards Buckingham Palace in an attempt to find their missing friends. Unfortunately for them, the Collector is roaming the streets and, even in a world where all of the surviving adults have become rotting [...]
The Son of Neptune, by Rick Riordan
Reviewed on October 19, 2011
The Son of Neptune is the second book in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series and marks the return of Percy Jackson. While his whereabouts had become clear to readers towards the end of The Lost Hero, Percy himself has little idea where he has been and what he might have done to earn the [...]
Muddle Earth Too, by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
Reviewed on September 5, 2011
Life at Stinkyhogs [the least salubrious of all the schools of wizardry in Muddle Earth] is increasingly troubled. Tinkerbell the cave trog, school bell, noticeboard and janitor is overworked and underappreciated, while Norbert the Not-Very-Big insists on serving prune curry for breakfast despite the obvious plumbing-related consequences. Meanwhile, headmaster Randalfus Rumblebore is being threatened by [...]
The Cardturner, by Louis Sachar
Reviewed on August 15, 2011
Alton Richards has not been having the best of summers. His girlfriend Katie has recently dumped him for his erstwhile best friend Cliff, he is totally skint and, worst of all, his parents are badgering him to spend his holiday shuttling his crotchety Uncle Lester to his various weekly Bridge tournaments. Not that Alton’s parents [...]
Undead, by Kirsty McKay
Reviewed on July 29, 2011
Bobby has recently moved back to England after spending most of her childhood in America and hates every minute of her new life. Believing that the experience will do her daughter good and help her make friends, Bobby’s mother has packed her off on a school skiing trip to Scotland where she is generally shunned [...]
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