This House Will Feed is a superb gothic novel and a damning record of the Irish Potato Famine, told through the eyes of Maggie O’Shaughnessy. Using the medium of Irish folklore, an intriguing supernatural yarn is spun; peppered with the chilling realities of genocide. The book starts with a long trigger warning and I advise…
Publish date: 27th January 2026. A Spell for Drowning follows Kensa Rowe, a child haunted by her father’s hanging and considered a pariah in the Cornish fishing village Portscatho. To find her place, she becomes the village ‘wise woman’ and learns to heal, as well as the ‘Old Ways’ (aka magic). I was pleasantly surprised…
However, this chapter doesn’t delve much into ADHD and could ‘just’ be a restless/hyperactive child, nervous about its first day of school.
The blurb promised a little too much. But the illustrations and art style are really wonderful, drawn with love.
Wonderfully sweet illustrations. I also like the “fascinating facts” list at the end of the book. Didn’t know that stingrays have something in common with bees!
Happy new year, everyone in the west! Hope you slid in well! As new year’s resolutions are going around, how about we don’t just plan things, but actually start fulfilling them?
As the days are getting colder for some and others may be in deep winter already, a warm read would be nice. So:
Every so often, a book comes along that changes you as a person. Orphanland is one of those books. It follows the story of Willa, an eleven year old orphan whose children’s home is at threat of closure due to lack of funds. Somehow, this pre-teen read manages to cover more social issues than a…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are in November, so that means … No. Let’s not set a bad example and fuel consumerism as well as materialism even more. Instead, let’s be a good example and have something more positive: Theme: gifting something hand-made Read and review anything that’s a book – novels, comics, mangas, graphic…
Release date: 28th October 2025 The Book of Autumn is a New Adult fantasy revolving around Marcella ‘Cella’ Gibbons, her magical school and her ex-boyfriend, Max Middlemore. Wonderfully drawn; a student is murdered, another hexed and Cella has been tasked with solving the mystery, saving the students and restoring the reputation of the school. I…
