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News: The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda available free for limited time 16 Aug 2013 | 04:46 pm
Yesterday I received an email from Kat at Simon and Schuster saying that the brilliant The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda is available free from Apple's iBook store for a limited period (until the 20th August)...
Review: The Fate in the Box by Michelle Lovric 16 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Fogfinger rules Venice. His Fog Squad and spies are everywhere. The Venetians fear him and obey him. Every year one of their children is lost in a grisly Lambing ceremony. The child must climb the bel...
Review: Zom-B Angels by Darren Shan 11 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
After spending the last few months wandering around London--a city filled with the dead--B Smith has given up hope for any sign of normal human existence. But then B finds strange signs all over the c...
Review: CRYPT: Blood Eagle Tortures by Andrew Hammond 10 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
On the remote coast of Suffolk an amateur diver uncovers an unusual artefact while exploring the lost town of Dunwich, now submerged a mile from shore. Within hours his boat is robbed and the burglar ...
Review: Ash Mistry and the World of Darkness by Sarwat Chadda 9 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Ash Mistry is in a world of pain. A parallel world in fact, where another version of him seems to be living his life, and the evil Lord Savage – now all-powerful and adored by the nation – is about to...
Extract from The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock 7 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
The Book Zone Book of the Year 2012 was Tom Pollock's truly amazing The City's Son. Now the sequel, The Glass Republic, has been published by Jo Fletcher Books and having just finished it I can say wi...
Review: Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Ross Montgomery 4 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem. His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the history of the Cusp, has escaped from hospital again, ye...
Review: Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre 31 Jul 2013 | 12:26 am
Oliver grew up in a family of explorers - but his biggest adventure is about to begin! Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid and a friendly island called Cliff, ...
Review: Sorrowline by Niel Bushnell 23 Jul 2013 | 09:47 pm
Twelve-year-old Jack Morrow is used to life being complicated. His mother died five years ago, and his father is now headed for prison. But then Jack discovers he's a Yard Boy - someone with the abili...
Review: Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff 22 Jul 2013 | 05:26 pm
Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school, in a new town, under a new name, makes few friends and doesn't stay lo...
