The Places You Will Go

Great Penguins

Penguin Classics has compiled a list of the hundred greatest books to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Naturally, if there is no Penguin Classics edition of a book, you will not see it on this list. In anycase, you might not even agree with the 100 PCs chosen.

Centrestage

I can think of several reasons why Andreas Steinhofel's young adult novel, Centre of My World, will get most parents stamping and snorting. Meg Rosoff has written a glowing review in The Guardian Unlimited.

I am not most parents and look forward (not in vain, I trust) to receiving my review copy. 

Old Pals Revisited

Tots to Teens, Star Mag

6th August 2006

Writers on Film

According to a Guardian Unlimited article, a film about the lives of the Brontes will start filming in October.

And biopics of Jane Austen, Beatrix Potter and Truman Capote will be released next year.

Believe it or not, Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries) will play Austen!

A portrait of Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, by their brother Branwell.

Clippety Clop

Kate Thompson's The Fourth Horseman (Bodley Head) is reviewed by Adele Geras in the Guardian Unlimited.