With a good-heartedness and open-eyed optimism free of cynicism, echoing classic books from an earlier generation, James Nicol‘s début novel, The Apprentice Witch combines immense comfort-reading with a bewitchingly perfect dose of mystery, suspense and magic. Despite failing to graduate … Continued
Woozy the Wizard: A Spell to Get Well written by Elli Woollard and Al Murphy is the first in a new and very funny series of readers for children just gaining confidence in reading alone. Woozy is a terribly well-meaning … Continued
Whilst away on holiday we read not only books set in Orkney but also books with more tangential links to this heart-entrapping archipeligo of islands. Full of seaweed, flotsam and inspiration for beach combing, Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip … Continued