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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Attack of the Meteor Monsters [Maudlin Towers #3] – Chris Priestley

    Bloomsbury October 2019 ISBN: 9781408873120 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $15.99   If you or your readers haven’t caught onto this series yet I would urge you to do so. While we all know it’s important to have narratives which deal with significant issues or concepts, it’s equally important to just have a chuckle in Read more

  • Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver – Michael Morpurgo

    Harper Collins September 2019 ISBN: 9780008347925 ISBN 10: 0008347921 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB List Price: 19.99 AUD And the master has done it again! Morpurgo has drawn on Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels as his inspiration for this latest exploration of human nature, political unrest and compassion. Omar has fled war-torn Afghanistan with his mother in a race for survival. Read more

  • The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman

    The Book of Dust Volume Two Published: 3 October 2019 ISBN: 9780241373347 Imprint: Penguin and David Fickling Books Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 784 RRP: $32.99 Surely one of the most highly anticipated sequels ever – or was that just me? (I don’t think so!) I wasn’t sure what to expect but it wasn’t this – and I mean that in a Read more

  • A postscript to my review of Beverly, Right Here

    If you read my review of Kate diCamillo’s latest novel Beverly, Right Here you will know how excited it made me that my girl was reading it. She has kept on going all these past weeks and today I came home from school to this. My heart is full! Read more

  • Christmas fun for littlies

      As the weeks go rushing past and in no time it will be time to hang the stockings we all seem to go into a kind of frenzy of ‘what to get for..?’. There are some very cute new books for little people which would make great stocking stuffers: Peppa’s Christmas Jumper Day Penguin Read more

  • Alice-Miranda Movie Madness

      Fans across the country are champing at the bit as the debut of everyone’s favourite schoolgirl on screen approaches. To celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated film version Penguin Australia has some super new goodies for all those A-M devotees. Keep the A-M magic flowing for your readers with these fabulous new additions to the Read more

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