A fool on a hill

 This week, the great children's writer Allan Ahlberg died. (As with everything, people will have their own opinions as to what's ...

  Full disclosure: Mara Bergman is an excellent editor as well as a writer, and some years ago, she edited two of my books, The Willow Man ...

I'm not sure where I came across this book - browsing somewhere or other on the internet, I suppose. I noticed it partly because of the ...

This is the second of the books I've read recently which has a magical tree at its centre - the first was The Lie Tree , which I've ...

I was immensely shocked and saddened to hear earlier this week of the death of the writer, Mal Peet. Keeper , published in 2003 by Walker, w...

Philip Kerr is the creator of the Berlin detective, Bernie Gunther - one of those ironic characters who hides his heart of gold beneath a...

Vivian French deftly uses elements of fairy-tale and myth to create the setting of The Snarling of Wolves ; so, for instance, we find ...