Hurrah news-currently aiming to set up STORYSHACK in a lovely garden with a log cabin for book making and a little annexe for 7 and under books, dressing up, potion making and general IMAGINEERING GALORE. Look out for more postings before the Easter Holidays.
In the meantime if you like detective novels with some clever eccentric peeps in rather than action biff pow punchy super hero types look no further than "Knightley & Son" by Rohan Gavin. Darkus' father has been in a coma for four years and Darkus has been piecing together all the cases his father was working on in order to pursue the lines of enquiry his father was following as a private detective. It's actually perhaps more about relationships than actual detecting but there is the sinister 'organisation' to be wary of and a clever plot about a book which compels people to commit crimes. It's about brains and feelings and there's lots of insights into a family make up previously fractured and set up slightly differently. It's a quirky read-Darkus is a bit Sherlock ian in his traits. I think 9 + should enjoy it and there's a series; "K9" is the second.
In the meantime if you like detective novels with some clever eccentric peeps in rather than action biff pow punchy super hero types look no further than "Knightley & Son" by Rohan Gavin. Darkus' father has been in a coma for four years and Darkus has been piecing together all the cases his father was working on in order to pursue the lines of enquiry his father was following as a private detective. It's actually perhaps more about relationships than actual detecting but there is the sinister 'organisation' to be wary of and a clever plot about a book which compels people to commit crimes. It's about brains and feelings and there's lots of insights into a family make up previously fractured and set up slightly differently. It's a quirky read-Darkus is a bit Sherlock ian in his traits. I think 9 + should enjoy it and there's a series; "K9" is the second.
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