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8 Of The Best YA Books About Growing Up
A fascinating selection hand-picked by our Work Experience teen: Amelie! “This is a selection of our favourite young adult books that focus of growing up and exploring the world around us. They are about teenagers from all walks of life and range from fantasy to real life, and are guaranteed to be gripping reads!” Aristotle…
Read MoreWhy Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Could Get Your Child Reading
One of the most successful run of children’s books in the 1980s were the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. Heavily influenced by the Dungeons & Dragons craze at the time, these activity ‘novels’ allowed the reader to shape their own destiny and navigate their way through a story making decisions along the way (and usually fighting…
Read MoreAnnette’s Devon Bookshelf
Annette Shaw is a freelance journalist with 30 years of experience, and has a regular column in Devon Life, sharing her pick of brilliant books with Devon connections. With her reputation for championing books and authors around the county, we’re delighted to have the opportunity to showcase her reviews here. Breakpoint by T. Orr Munro Set…
Read MoreReview: The Light Thieves
Clever, quirky and hugely imaginative, discover the new eco-adventure series from the bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect. The earth has shifted on its axis, a mysterious dark mark has appeared on the sun and the whole world is in peril. But billionaire tech genius Howard Hansom has a plan and it seems…
Read MoreKev’s Shelf Obsession: Anne Enright
Kev McCready is a writer, born in Liverpool but now living in Devon. Always with his nose in a book and a cuppa brewing. A fanatical reader since the age of five, Kev has a collection of bookmarks as esoteric as his bookshelves… I met Anne Enright at a book signing in Liverpool. She’s all…
Read MoreReview: How To Catch A Rainbow
Freya loves rainbows. She loves their bright colours and their curvy shape. More than anything, she wishes she has one of her very own. One that she can keep forever. So she decides to become a Rainbow Hunter! Armed with a net and a rucksack full of rainbow hunting kit she sets off to…
Read MoreSix Brilliant Picture Books for Ages 3-7
Our intrepid volunteer Nicola highlights some fun and interesting picture books that will appeal to both young children and their parents! With 10,000 new children’s books published each year, it can feel overwhelming knowing where to start when you want to buy new books for your children or school. Understandably, people often return to old…
Read MoreReview: Trust
An impressive, sweeping Great-Depression-era novel which uncovers the truth behind a reclusive millionaire. Secretive Wall Street tycoon Andrew Bevel is the subject of much innuendo and gossip, as well as suspicion. Between the bare facts and the scandal written about him lies a deeper, and more complex truth…which will be revealed by the end…
Read MoreAnnette’s Devon Bookshelf
Annette Shaw is a freelance journalist with 30 years of experience, and has a regular column in Devon Life, sharing her pick of brilliant books with Devon connections. With her reputation for championing books and authors around the county, we’re delighted to have the opportunity to showcase her reviews here. Deception by Lesley Pearse Her 30th…
Read MoreReview: Shrines Of Gaiety
Its 1926 and, while London recovers from WW1, there are cracks in the Coker family empire – a string of glamorous but illicit nightclubs in Soho – built by the wily and resourceful Nellie Coker, a character inspired by the obituary of real-life club maven Kate Meyrick. Shrewd and ruthless, Nellie is ambitious with…
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