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Hell’s Bells! Something Scary For Christmas

C S Hughes December 19, 2016

Sometimes it is easy to forget in the cheer and frivolity of the festive season, that celebrations at this time...

The Trial of Elizabeth Poldark

Olga Hughes December 12, 2016

The following contains spoilers for Poldark Season 2. Elizabeth Chynoweth has never been in an advantageous position with readers. In...

Christopher Tolkien Awarded the Bodley Medal

Olga Hughes November 1, 2016

Christopher Tolkien is to receive the Bodley Medal, awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford for outstanding...

Elizabeth Norton’s ‘The Lives of Tudor Women’ Book Tour – The Seven Ages of Women

Olga Hughes October 12, 2016

Elizabeth Norton has brought us intriguing and compelling historical studies and biographies, looking at both the famous and infamous Queens...

Banned Books Week 2016: Enid and Noddy Defeat the Despots

Olga Hughes September 29, 2016

Over the last few decades the word “racist” has become almost synonymous with Enid Blyton’s name. Accusations of sexism and...

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

Olga Hughes September 23, 2016

Winnie-the-Pooh’s 90th anniversary will be celebrated with an official sequel The Best Bear in all the World, and a new...

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

Olga Hughes September 13, 2016

Supervitamin Chocolate “Supervitamin Chocolate contains huge amounts of vitamin A and vitamin B. It also contains vitamin C, vitamin D,...

The Tunnel Runner – Terror Under The Streets Of Brisbane

C S Hughes September 11, 2016

You may have heard of urbex – urban exploration, a little like spelunking, but instead of discovering the mysteries of...

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

Olga Hughes September 6, 2016

The love letters that King Henry VIII penned to his amour Anne Boleyn over 1527 and 1528 survive as an...

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

Olga Hughes August 10, 2016

Quercus is bringing out a Famous Five Parody series, Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, this November. Grisly Tales from Tumblewater author...

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

Olga Hughes July 15, 2016

Who can forget two young girls who pretend they are prisoners in the Bastille to ward off the freezing cold...

Ghostbusters Collectables with Matt MacNabb

C.S. Hughes and Olga Hughes July 13, 2016

toyicious /tɔɪˈɪʃəs/ adjective 1. the ease, success or suitability with which a character, object or concept from a film or...

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

Olga Hughes March 30, 2016

Black Beauty is one of the best-selling and most-beloved books of all time; a ground-breaking anthropomorphic novel so poignant it...

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

Olga Hughes March 14, 2016

Rowling released four new articles on Pottermore last week discussing the history of magic in North America. In anticipation of...

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

Olga Hughes March 2, 2016

One of this week’s media trends has seen various newspapers and websites leading Harry Potter readers down the garden path,...

Memorable Quotes from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Olga Hughes February 20, 2016

Vale Harper Lee, April 28 1926 – February 19 2016 ...

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

Olga Hughes February 17, 2016

Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond has tracked down two long-lost poems in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire....

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