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Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good - Louie Stowell
I'm thrilled to be a part of the blog tour for this much anticipated release from Walker Books by Louie Stowell! Check out the other...
simpsonrd
Feb 8, 20222 min read
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Big Sky Mountain: The Forest Wolves - Alex Milway
The fun second book in the 'Big Sky Mountain' series follows Rosa and Grandma Nan's latest adventures on the mountain involving the...
simpsonrd
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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What's New Harper Drew? - Kathy Weeks, ill. by Aleksei Bitskoff
Loved this! Read longside my 9 year old daughter, this was a laugh out loud page-turner that had us both in stitches as we followed the...
simpsonrd
Jan 31, 20222 min read
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The Tower At The End Of Time - Amy Sparkes
I'm thrilled to have been asked by the wonderful Rebecca Oram and the lovely people at Walker Books to revisit one of my favourite...
simpsonrd
Jan 24, 20225 min read
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Where God Does Not Walk - Luke McCallin
THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918… Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when ...
simpsonrd
Dec 14, 20212 min read
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An Odd Dog Christmas - Rob Biddulph
A joyous celebration of Christmas, with a message of kindness and a reminder of what Christmas is really about, this is a wonderful book...
simpsonrd
Dec 11, 20211 min read
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The Lost Girls - Heather Young
Blog tour post December 2nd 2021 A stunning novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and...
simpsonrd
Dec 2, 20212 min read
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The Forgotten Crown - James Haddell
Blogtour, 26th November 2021 This had begun as a quest of self-discovery, following the meagre clues she had with regard to her birth...
simpsonrd
Nov 25, 20212 min read
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The Chime Seekers - Ross Montgomery
Updated for my stop on the #thechimeseekers blog tour 30th November 2021 If you liked last year's brilliant Midnight Guardians (I did)...
simpsonrd
Nov 4, 20213 min read
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Sisters of the Lost Marsh - Lucy Strange
Lucy Strange's 'Ghost of Gosswater' was one of my favourite reads of last year, a Gothic, dark thrill of a tale, with storms, graveyards,...
simpsonrd
Oct 31, 20212 min read
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The False Rose - Jakob Wegelius
When Sally Jones and The Chief discover a curious rose-shaped necklace hidden onboard their beloved Hudson Queen, it’s the start of...
simpsonrd
Oct 25, 20213 min read
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Unleash Your Creative Monster- Andy Jones, ill. by Olaf Falafel
What a beast of a book! And I mean that in a good way...it's brilliant! Ever since it arrived, it hasn't left the paws/claws of my 7 and...
simpsonrd
Oct 15, 20213 min read
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Fireborn- Aisling Fowler
Fireborn HarperCollins Published 30th September
simpsonrd
Oct 2, 20211 min read
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The Wisdom Of Crowds - Joe Abercrombie
'Grimdark' is a genre many whatiread visitors and followers of my usual reviews may not be familiar with, but I'm a huge fan of this...
simpsonrd
Sep 21, 20214 min read
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The Bewitching Of Aveline Jones - Phil Hickes
Phil Hickes' 'The Haunting of Aveline Jones' was one of my favourite reads of last year as spooky, seriously scary fare for my Year 6...
simpsonrd
Sep 20, 202110 min read
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The Dream House - Laura Dockrill, ill. by Gwen Millward
An incredible mix of prose, poetry and playsuit, following the story of Rex, a young boy coming to terms with the loss of his father....
simpsonrd
Sep 14, 20211 min read
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Polly Pecorino - Emma Chichester-Clark
Are you brave enough to enter the Wild Bear Woods? Polly Pecorino rescues animals, and she can talk to them too. She spends all of her...
simpsonrd
Sep 13, 20212 min read
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Giften- Leyla Suzan
A BLIGHTED LAND Ever since The Darkening, survival has been a struggle. The people of the Field toil on parched earth, trying to forge a...
simpsonrd
Sep 7, 20212 min read
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Play Like Your Football Heroes - Matt Oldfield and Seth Burkett
We're massive fans of Matt Oldfield's 'Football Heroes' series in this house...my son, Finn, has a huge selection of them, and loves...
simpsonrd
Sep 5, 20216 min read
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Wrecked Lives- Donald Wraith
Having grown up on the noth coast of Northern Ireland, close to the wreck of an Armada ship (the Girona), I was thrilled to be asked to...
simpsonrd
Sep 5, 20214 min read
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