This week I’m reading…Seaglass by Eloise Williams
Eloise Williams is the inaugural Children’s Laureate for Wales. When you read this eerie, middle grade ghost story, you’ll...
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This week I’m reading…The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
In dark times, we need stories to help us see the light. The tale of a Syrian refugee starting...
This week I’m reading ….The Middler by Kirsty Applebaum
Ok, here’s the disclaimer. I’m a middle child. I grew up squished between a big brother and a little...
This week I’m reading…The Woman Who Waited by Andrei Makine
The male gaze. Men reducing women to a sum of their physical parts. How’s that still a thing in 2016? You’d think we...
This week I’m reading…The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
Cinderella’s glass slippers have always weirded me out.* I mean, what was her fairy godmother thinking? They must have been about...
This week I’m reading…The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fantasy isn’t a highbrow literary genre. Stories populated by goblins, elves and power-hungry dark lords with a penchant for quasi-medieval attire win neither...
This week I’m reading…The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
If you get annoyed when your other half stumbles in late from the pub because of an impromptu excursion to the...