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We always say and hear that we only have so many plots, they have all been used before, so why are so many great books still written? One thing we ...

In 1552 there was merely a window, no books and no drones...But we knew if we took Andy Briggs to Hutton Grammar and indeed anywhere, he'd make the...

Magic is such a powerful thing, it works both as a craft and as a device, when it's written about with real insight and real diversion of perspecti...

They always say, write about what you know and love...Charlotte is obviously a multi tasker and some...She throws everything into this adorable boo...

We all have heard of the Dunkirk Spirit, how the flotilla of small boats went across the channel to rescue thousands of beleaguered troops and effe...

 This is a superbly written and very powerful and deeply moving book. Barrington Stoke are the par excellence of finding talent to do the right thi...

Lonely is hard, really hard, when you realise there is literally NO ONE to talk to, ever... what would you do?I'd imagine some of us would literall...

Well, after 30 odd years trying to encourage anyone from themselves to a massed locked room of 500 to consider reading as a good thing...I decided ...

Hello, I just thought I'd say a bit...I used to manage an award winning bookshop, did so for 25 years, then I opened and owned/ran one for 3 years,...

What a cracking book! Full Steam ahead… 'for the North where they should like Shakespeare'... so says Pa and he knows his Bard... Mind, Vivian has ...

Matt Cain REALLY knows his Icon, Madonna has lived with some of us for 30 odd years, I always liked her and still do, but Matt REALLY likes her and...

We are lucky, we live in the grim, dark and spooky North. It's where legends were made, it's where ghasts, boggarts and all manner of unspeakable d...