Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • The Haunting of Fortune Farm – Sophie Kirtley

    Bloomsbury Australia January 2025 ISBN 9781526642783 Imprint Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP: $16.99 I enjoyed Sophie Kirtley’s debut novel The Wild Way Home tremendously back in 2020 and though I haven’t read the intervening books (one novel, one picture book), I had high expectations of this one. I was not disappointed. This is another MG novel…

  • The 1, 000-Year-Old Boy – Ross Welford

    Harper Collins Australia January 2018 ISBN 10: 0008256942 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB ISBN: 9780008256944 Pages: 400 List Price: 14.99 AUD   Alfie Monk is not your average eleven year old boy. He is ‘proficient in Old Norse, Old English, Middle English and Modern English, plus French, Latin and Greek (ancient and modern, though they are not so dissimilar), and [has]…