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 Shelf of Solace
Nothing like reading about the Tudors to take your mind off your own misery. I started with Philippa Gregory’s Three Sisters, Three Queen. The novel is told in the voice of Margaret Tudor, who we first meet as a whiny, self-obsessed and envious little miss, jealous of her new sister-in-law, Katherine of Aragon and determined […]
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Here be dragons
I used to grumble about routine medical appointments. But it was a routine mammogram a couple of weeks ago which picked up early DCIS – noninvasive breast cancer. Immediately the health machinery was set in motion. The mammogram results took less than fortnight, the biopsy and follow-up appointment were made pronto presto. My GP was […]