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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Women and children first…
I’ve been on a Kate Atkinson binge. This is the result of investing in a rowing machine. I can only row for the necessary 25-30 minutes while listening to crime novels. Enter Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. I’m now on the fifth book, Big Sky – fortunately there is a sixth, so my exercise regime […]
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Dystopian fiction in 5 bites
At the beginning of the year, I was a little obsessed with dystopian fiction. I’d read Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel’s post-pandemic book, published in 2014 in either 2022 or 2023, but hadn’t read either Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (although I thought I had!) or Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. – […]