Category: Recommendations

There have been many excellent novels published in paperback this year, and Olivia and Eleanor are very good at creating piles of enticing books on the tables. Two that they have promoted which I have particularly loved are Alice Winn’s In Memoriam (even though I am not usually that keen …

It may seem a bit random to focus on this year, but bear with me. Twice-yearly Reading Clubs are co-hosted by two bloggers: https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/club-pages/ and https://www.stuckinabook.com/. In the words of the former ‘We choose a particular year, usually between 1920 and 1980, and encourage fellow bloggers (and anyone online!) to …

Speculative fiction seems to be becoming increasingly popular, and I can understand why given the opportunities it offers authors to use their imagination and play with ideas. Here are five of my favourite speculative fiction titles which have been published in paperback in the last year. This Time Tomorrow – …

‘The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people’ (https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/about-the-awards/). The 2024 longlist includes 19 titles from the 69 nominations, and I am excited to see some of my favourites have been selected. Let’s look at …

~January 2024~ I have greatly enjoyed a lot of recent children’s paperbacks. Here are some of my favourites. Time Travelling With a Hamster – Ross Welford I am always interested in books with time travel, and liked Ross Welford’s Time Travelling With a Hamster (9+) which was published some years …

I have loved books about parallel worlds ever since I was young and read Diana Wynne Jones’ Charmed Life (followed by others featuring Chrestomanci). Parallel worlds fascinate me as authors can write about them from a realist perspective, or turn to fantasy or science fiction. I like the way that …