Title: Twilight Robbery/Fly Trap Author: Frances Hardinge Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade Publisher: Harper Collins US / Macmillan UK Publication date: March/May 2011 Hardcover: 544 pages Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin…
Title: HHhH Author: Laurent Binet / Translated by Sam Taylor Genre: Historical, Fiction?/NonFiction? / World War II Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Harvill Secker Publication date: April /May 2012 (first published in France in 2010) Hardcover: 336 pages…
Hello everybody – hope y’all having a good Sunday. This stash is going to be short and sweet. GIVEAWAY WINNER: The winner of a copy of Seraphina by Rachel Hartman is… GINNY Congratulations to the winner! You know the…
Title: Fly By Night Author: Frances Hardinge Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade Publisher: Harper Collins US / Macmillian UK Publication date: First published in 2006 Paperback: 438 pages Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hasn’t got much. Her cruel uncle keeps her locked…
Title: Some Kind of Fairy Tale Author: Graham Joyce Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary Publisher: Gollancz / Knopf Doubleday Publication date: February 1st 2012 / July 10th 2012 Hardcover: 320 pages It is Christmas afternoon and Peter Martin gets an unexpected…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar…
It’s Friday, which means: it’s time for our Kirkus spot! Earlier this week, we talked about our favourite books of the year so far (overall, all genres) and today we are back with our list of Best Sci Fi…
Title: American Gypsy: A Memoir Author: Oksana Marafioti Genre: Memoir, YA Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication date: July 3 2012 Paperback: 348 pages A vivid and funny memoir about growing up Gypsy and becoming American Fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
