Catherine MacPhail |
Bloomsbury |
0747582696 |
Apr 2007 |
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Continuing the story of Ram, ‘The Beast Within’ follows on from ‘Into the Shadows’ as the second book in the ‘Nemesis’ series. Ram suffers a type of amnesia meaning he is unaware of his background or parentage and finds himself subject to the types of desires and expectation that others fulfil through him. |
Archives for October 2007
The Summoning
E. E. Richardson |
The Bodley Head |
0370328876 |
Apr 2007 |
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The occult forms an ever present source of inspiration and intrigue for horror writers and E. E. Richardson’s ‘The Summoning’ is no exception. Initially sceptical about his grandfather’s dabblings in the occult, Justin endeavours to expose the fear and irrationality he believes must belie the hyper-logical persona of his class-mate Daniel Eilerson through the summoning of a spirit. |
What I Was
Meg Rosoff |
Puffin |
0141383437 |
Aug 2007 |
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Rosoff writes in a nowhere time that paradoxically is anytime and everytime, she writes about nobody that is anybody and somehow everybody. |
The Icy Hand
Chris Mould |
Hodder |
0340945052 |
Aug 2007 |
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Chris Mould’s greatest skill both as an illustrator and as a writer is in encapsulating intense moments of humanity and compassion and in endowing even the seemingly arbitrary with a rare sense of animation. The joy of his work arises not through the commodity of an ill-defined ‘magic’, but rather through a genuine sense of wonder and intrigue that permeates his characters and settings leaving readers with a sense of awe. |