Why You Should Read the Winternight Trilogy!

When I was thinking about which books I'd recommend to anyone and everyone, the Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden was top of the list! Perfect for fans of history, fantasy and folklore, there's a little something in these pages for every reader. I've bought them for several people and suggested them to even more, every …

Review: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Blurb: As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the sense of magic that seemed to hang in the air around them. All Gillian and Sally ever wanted was to get away. Years later, tragedy brings the sisters back together. They'll find that no …

Blog Tour: The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

With the lifting of lockdown restrictions and me (FINALLY) being back to work on the Children's floor of my bookshop, I was over the moon to get my hands on an advanced copy of The Beast and the Bethany to review - all thanks to Dave as part of the newest #TheUltimateBlogTour! With a movie …

Review: A Throne of Swans by Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

Blurb: When her father dies just before her eighteenth birthday, Aderyn inherits the role of Protector of Atratys, a dominion in a kingdom where nobles can transform into birds. Aderyn's ancestral bird is a swan. But she has not been able to transform for years, not since witnessing the death of her mother. Aderyn must venture …

Review: Beyond Platform 13 by Sibeal Pounder and Eva Ibbotson

I was sent a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Blurb: The Island of Mist is under siege and Odge Gribble and Prince Ben are in hiding. Desperate to find out why the mist is disappearing, Odge travels through the gump to Vienna, to find a mistmaker expert. But in yet …

Review: Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day by Dominique Valente

** A GIVEAWAY IS CURRENTLY LIVE OVER ON TWITTER TO WIN A COPY OF STARFELL! Entries close on March 19th and winner will be announced same day! 😊 Blurb: Willow Moss is a bit odd. But then the best people often are - and sometimes odd is what it takes to save the day...Willow Moss, the …

Review: Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Blurb: Who are the Sawkill girls? Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she's sure she'll never find. Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Val: the queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged. A heart made of …

Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Blurb: Sometimes, a door is closed for a very good reason... There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other …

Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Blurb: Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks for …

Review: The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Blurb: For a young woman in medieval Russia, the choices are stark: marriage or life in a convent. Vasya will choose a third way: magic...When Vasya encounters the Grand Prince of Moscow, she is dressed as a boy for safety's sake. This is a dangerous country with a court plagued by power struggles and bandits …