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A wonderful, thoroughly researched and wide-ranging overview of children's literature, from early beginnings in the 17th century right up to J K Rowling and Philip Pullman today. I loved meeting many old childhood 'friends' while discovering books and authors I'd somehow missed. My only niggle is that Leith consciously omitted most (not all, so inconsistent) American authors, whose contribution to childhood literature is monumental. Think Little Women, What Katy Did and The Phantom Tollbooth, to name but a few. But overall this is a hugely enjoyable read.
*A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*
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The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past - collective and individual, remembered and imagined - and invite us to dream up different futures.
In a pioneering history of the children's literary canon, The Haunted Wood reveals…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
Lissa Evans is that rare thing: a contemporary author of beautifully written, tightly plotted novels that don't feel they need to tick any boxes but allow the sharply delineated characters to be themselves and the story to come through. V for Victory completes her WW2 trilogy that began with Old Baggage (also wonderful, as is the second one, Crooked Heart), in which gawky, eccentric orphan Noel and his initially reluctant adoptive 'aunt' Vee Sedge fight for economic survival in a bombed out London. Clever, engaging, intriguing, historically fascinating, written by a master storyteller who can switch from comedy to heart-wrenching poignancy on a sixpence.
