Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino. Vintage. (160p) ISBN 9780099429838 Another book in my classics reading exercise, amazingly enough a lot of the books I’ve read whilst doing this […]
Month: April 2020
Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes. Hachette. (224p) ISBN 9781510104396 Ghost Boys is another book I read a while back and am just getting around to reviewing. Jerome […]
Pax
Sara Pennypacker. HarperCollins. (288p) ISBN 9780008158286 I will make this clear right from the start. Pax had me in tears at several points, the whole […]
What is Poetry?
Michael Rosen. Walker Books. (208p) ISBN 9781844287635 Let’s just get it out of the way at the start – I love Michael Rosen. There I […]
Beetle Queen
M.G. Leonard. Chicken House. (352p) ISBN 9781910002773 Continuing the adventures of Darkus, Victoria and Bertolt, ‘Beetle Queen’ is another wonderfully crafted book. Written by M.G. […]
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas. Walker Books. (464p) ISBN 9781406372151 What can you say about a book that has won so many awards, been featured in so many […]
The Island at the End of Everything
Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Chicken House. (256p) ISBN 9781910002766 Based on a real island in the Philippines, Kiran tells the story of Amhi, The Island at […]
The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon. Hachette. (240p) ISBN 9781510101555 The story of Subhi, a Rohingya boy born in an Australian immigration detention centre, Subhi knows no other life […]
The Paninis of Pompeii
Andy Stanton. HarperCollins. (176p) ISBN 9781405293853 My nephew and I are such great fans of Mr Gum and Andy Stanton and when he found out […]
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