Katie Who Can Read

My best friend, Judith, is only two months older than me, but when we were at school, she was in the year above me. This proved very useful ...

What is a psychopath? That is the question at the heart of Jon Ronson’s book which is advertised as: “A journey through the madness industr...

When Rose hears that her childhood friend has been widowed, she doesn't hesitate in inviting Polly and her children to stay. What else c...

When Sophie Hatter falls foul of the wicked Witch of the Waste, she heads off to the best place to get help - to the mysterious moving cas...

Happy New Year everyone. I've read 120 books in 2011, and looking back over my list, it was interesting to see which books have linger...

A glowing lamppost in the middle of a snowy wood. A faun, wrapped in a scarf, carrying parcels and an umbrella. This is one of the images ...

I received my Little House on the Prairie omnibus for my seventh birthday, and it was my first really big book: three books in one, chroni...

You cannot, of course, write a series on fictional Christmases without mentioning Charles Dickens' ghost story and tale of redemption: A...

There haven't been many subjects that Terry Pratchett hasn't taken from the round world, taken to his Discworld and examined from ...

Because of each book in the Harry Potter series spanning an entire school year, Christmas features in each of them. I found it difficult to ...