Katie Who Can Read

In 1972, two seconds were added to time. Could this be to blame for what happened next? Eleven-year-old Byron Hemming thinks so. Byron i...

I first encountered Charlotte Bronte as a pre-teen, when for some reason or other I watched the Lowood scenes in rehearsal at the local thea...

Forever - Maggie Stiefvater: In Shiver, Grace fell in love with a boy with golden eyes, who was a wolf in winter. The book ended with his ...

I've decided to review the concluding two books in the Anne of Green Gables series in a single post, as I've already said a lot ...

Lament is the first novel from Maggie Stiefvater, author of Shiver and its sequel Linger, but it has only been published in the UK this year...

After three years of waiting, Anne finally fulfils all her friends's prophecies and marries Gilbert Blythe. Gilbert is now qualified as...

Major Ernest Pettigrew is an old-fashioned gentleman living in a quiet Sussex village. On the day of his brother's death, Mrs Ali from t...

Whenever Toru Watanabe hears his favourite Beatles song, “Norwegian Wood,” his mind is taken back to the late 1960s, when he was a student i...

I wouldn’t have heard of Winifred Holtby’s South Riding if it hadn’t been for the new 3-part BBC adaptation masterminded by Andrew Davies ...

I'm not fussy when it comes to books and I read a variety of genres for different reasons: romance when I'm feeling squishy and in n...

I used to be confused and a bit annoyed when film and stage adaptations of this classic story would be titled Little Women but contain the s...

Hi everyone! Sorry about the lack of updates in the last week or so. Life has been so busy in the run-up to Christmas that I haven't eve...

Contains spoilers I was both wary and childishly excited to see the film version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, because it has been on...

Fixing Delilah isn't even available to buy in the UK yet, but thanks to the wonders of the internet I was able to order a US copy of the...