Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Jo Cotterill reflects on the enduring magic of Joan Aiken's marvellous fairytales. I don’t know how old I was when...

Katy Moran explores Joan Aiken's disturbing yet entrancing classic A grand house, a pack of hungry wolves and two brave an...

by Lily Hyde It's more than a year now I’ve been on the road. I’ve spent most of my adult life in other countries than the one I...

Earthsea, Narnia, Middle Earth – the three classic fantasy worlds I talked about last week – are distinctive places. Most children – most p...

And clearly you've all had time to read all the books listed in my last post - and I've been reminded of even more wonderful snowy r...