LOVED this book! The excitement just kept building onto itself, and it was one of those books you just want to stay up all night reading. The characters were great, too. If you're not sure if you want to read this, all I have to say to you is definitely give it a chance. Gill Arbuthnott will take...
Gill Arbuthnott is a fellow Floris author (our first books were published by Floris), and we very occasionally bump into each other at author-do's, through the Scottish Book Trust which is situated in John Knox's old house in Edinburgh.It's a while now since I've seen Gill, and about a year since...
3.5/5 starsI'm still trying to figure out how to put the way I feel about this book into words. There were a few places that I thought it was slow; I could put it down easily. But at the same time there was always something going on. It made me wonder what makes a book a can't-put-it-down book...
Kate and David are eleven years old and best friends -- playing football and doing their museum project together. But in Edinburgh, where they live, time is coming unstuck and the past is breaking loose. Old Mr Flowerdew needs their help in the war between the Lords of Chaos and the Guardians of ...
Josh is on summer holiday with his mum in Pitmillie in Fife, near St Andrews. Callie is a local girl who knows the area inside out. They notice that the weather is becoming inexplicably cold, even for Scotland. Unseen by anyone, the sea starts to freeze and ice creeps up the beaches. Josh and Cal...
A sequel to The Chaos Clock. It is eighteen months after the events of The Chaos Clock, and Kate and David are now at secondary school in Edinburgh. David is struggling to come to terms with his new stepmother, and Kate is being expected to take more responsibility for her younger brother. B...
She wanted to be alone in the dark with her thoughts, but there was the evening to endure first. Arnor, Magnus and Freya were to stay the night. The short winter day was already darkening and no one wanted to be on the road after nightfall.Finn was gone.To Ian’s fury, Arnor and Freya had let him ...
Her greying brown hair was twisted into an untidy knot at the back of her head, secured with a couple of goose quills already trimmed for writing. Thomas noticed that one of them had ink on the tip.They had asked her years ago, when they were still boys, why people called her a sorceress. She had...
Yet he found himself on edge, listening for the muffled splash of oars and gruff voices, and felt shameful relief if he found himself walking past the gardens with others.So it was that on Tuesday night, when he left to walk home after a drink with the others – just like the last time, he thought...
GRIMOIRES 14. GRIMOIRES“Rose!” yelled Callie. “There’s something wrong with Josh.” She took him by the shoulders and shook him.“Josh, what’s happening?”“I can feel him. He’s so angry. Get Rose and Bessie out of the room,” said Josh with difficulty.Callie glanced up the stairs. “They’re already co...