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Banned Books Week 2016: Enid and Noddy Defeat the Despots

September 29, 2016

Over the last few decades the word "racist" has become almost synonymous with Enid Blyton's name. Accusations of sexism and classism have also persisted, along with the BBC's recent desperate campaign to expose... Read More...

Penguin Comes to the Hundred Acre Wood for Winnie-the-Pooh’s 90th Anniversary

Olga Hughes

September 23, 2016

Books

Winnie-the-Pooh's 90th anniversary will be celebrated with an official sequel The Best Bear in all the World, and a new friend coming to the Hundred-Acre-Wood. Author Brian Sibley, who has written one of the... Read More...

Ten Sweets We Want to Eat from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Olga Hughes

September 13, 2016

Books

Supervitamin Chocolate “Supervitamin Chocolate contains huge amounts of vitamin A and vitamin B. It also contains vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin F, vitamin G, vitamin I, vitamin J, vitamin K, vit... Read More...

The Tunnel Runner – Terror Under The Streets Of Brisbane

C S Hughes

September 11, 2016

Books

You may have heard of urbex - urban exploration, a little like spelunking, but instead of discovering the mysteries of caves, exploring the hidden, the abandoned, the forgotten spaces of the human-made environm... Read More...

Truth Endures: Je Anne Boleyn Book Tour and Give Away – Making the Movie

Olga Hughes

September 6, 2016

Books

The love letters that King Henry VIII penned to his amour Anne Boleyn over 1527 and 1528 survive as an enduring testimony to the great love he once had for her; less than ten years before he ordered her executi... Read More...

Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups – Five on Brexit Island and More!

Olga Hughes

August 10, 2016

Books

Quercus is bringing out a Famous Five Parody series, Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, this November. Grisly Tales from Tumblewater author Bruno Vincent is penning the series, which will include Five Go Dry January, F... Read More...

Five Fabulous Feasts in Children’s Literature: Feast and Friendship

Olga Hughes

July 15, 2016

Books

Who can forget two young girls who pretend they are prisoners in the Bastille to ward off the freezing cold and hunger; the first sail on the river that leads to a lifelong friendship, all the animals in the ba... Read More...

Ghostbusters Collectables with Matt MacNabb

C.S. Hughes and Olga Hughes

July 13, 2016

Books, Film & TV, Interviews

toyicious /tɔɪˈɪʃəs/ adjective 1. the ease, success or suitability with which a character, object or concept from a film or television program can be turned into a toy. Ghostbusters is undoubtedly one of... Read More...

Shakespeare First Folio Discovered in Scotland

Olga Hughes

April 8, 2016

Books, History

Another Shakespeare First Folio has been discovered in Scotland on the Isle of Bute, less than 18 months after a copy was discovered in 2014, by a librarian in Saint-Omer, near Calais. Unlike many of the 230 od... Read More...

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

Olga Hughes

March 30, 2016

Books

Black Beauty is one of the best-selling and most-beloved books of all time; a ground-breaking anthropomorphic novel so poignant it led to international outrage and protest against the treatment of working horse... Read More...

12 Things We’ve Learned About the History of Magic in North America

Olga Hughes

March 14, 2016

Books, Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling released four new articles on Pottermore last week discussing the history of magic in North America. In anticipation of the first movie instalment of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them this ye... Read More...

Why Your Old Harry Potter Books Are Probably Not Worth a Fortune

Olga Hughes

March 2, 2016

Books, Harry Potter

One of this week's media trends has seen various newspapers and websites leading Harry Potter readers down the garden path, making vague claims that their old Harry Potter books could be worth thousands. It has... Read More...

Memorable Quotes from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Olga Hughes

February 20, 2016

Books

Vale Harper Lee, April 28 1926 - February 19 2016 ... Read More...

Two Long-Lost J.R.R. Tolkien Poems Found in a School Annual

Olga Hughes

February 17, 2016

Books

Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond has tracked down two long-lost poems in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire. Hammond made the discovery when he found a note written by Tolkien, in which the... Read More...

The 20 Most Lied-About Books

Olga Hughes

February 11, 2016

Books

Lying about having read a book usually always ends badly. Trust me, while I never used to outright lie to customers when I had a bookshop, I used to naively think that adopting an agreeable approach was safe. T... Read More...

Five Harry Potter Spin-off Stories We Want To See

Olga Hughes

February 4, 2016

Books, Harry Potter

The end of Harry Potter's story in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007 seems like an absolute lifetime ago, and indeed it will be nine years this July. And if you had told me nine years ago that we wou... Read More...

Mog Returns for Children’s Literacy in ‘Mog’s Christmas Calamity’

Olga Hughes

November 13, 2015

Books

One of Britain's best-loved cats has returned to spread Christmas cheer and raise money for children's literacy. 92 year-old author Judith Kerr has written a new story featuring the beloved Mog, Mog's Christmas... Read More...