Review: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn’t just like ultra-violence – he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven’s Ninth. He and his gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, the government psychologist, he discovers that fun […]

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My favourite summer read: Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

Blurb: Nervous flyer Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So, naturally enough, she starts telling the man sitting next to her – quite a dishy American, but she’s too frightened to notice – all her secrets. How she scans the backs of intellectual books […]

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Review: Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg

Blurb: WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE? Green and Blue are sisters. Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad. Green understands. Why canโ€™t Blue? Review: Eleanor Wasserberg has managed to create a world we all fear in her debut novel Foxlowe. It is a dark and twisted Gothic novel that is impossible to put down. The […]

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