Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Grotlyn by Benji DaviesAlso from Walker, The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen is a subversive delight. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pierre the Maze Detective: The Mystery of the Empire Maze Tower by Hiro KamigakiTom Fletcher’s The Creakers (Puffin), meanwhile, is a stonkingly good novel for the over sevens. In The Midnight Peacock (Egmont) Katherine Woodfine brings her tautly plotted Edwardian series The Sinclair’s Mysteries to a stylish conclusion, in a book filled with deft characterisation and delectable period detail. The Midnight Peacock by Katherine WoodfineFantasy fans will devour Jessica Townsend’s striking debut Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crowe (Orion). Boasting emotional depth and believable heartbreak alongside such memorable lines as “frostbite of the bumhole”, this is Bourne at her outrageous, courageous, necessary best.

Source: The Guardian October 28, 2017 09:00 UTC