Star
When Star’s mum, Nell, begins to fall in love with Charlie and he moves in properly, Star isn’t sure how she feels about it.
Mimi and the Blue Slave
When grief strikes, you need an ally. For Mimi, that ally is Ableth, the wildly disobedient blue slave.
Catherine Bateson is a poet and writer for young adults and younger readers.
She lives in Kallista with her husband, a rescue dog called Winter, a wide assortment of tropical fish and whichever children have moved back home as well as her octogenarian mother.
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The Book of Alchemy
I was first alerted to The Book of Alchemy, A Creative Practice for an Inspired life, when my substack feed featured a post by Suleika Jaouad. She is a memoirist (Between Two Kingdoms) and a columnist for the New York Times and the creator of the weekly newsletter and global community, ‘The Isolation Journals’ on Substack.
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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
A great big roller-coaster of a read – Midnight’s Children is an exuberant, heartbreaking love letter to India. Rusdhie writes unflinchingly of this turbulent nation of extremes. It’s a postmodern, postcolonial magic realist novel influenced by Tristram Shandy (which I’ve never managed to read). It’s a sprawling account of the life of Saleem Sinai, born […]