As the dread day dawns of the first anniversary of our incarceration in these caves, here’s a lovely thing I’ve just heard about that’s cheered me up a bit.

Commissioned by the UK government’s Department for Children, Schools and Families, The School Library Association has just produced Everyone’s Reading – a list of books the SLA reckons might inspire more 11 to 18 year olds to read for pleasure.

Every state secondary school in England has the chance to choose fifteen books from the Everyone’s Reading list for their school libraries for free. But as if all of that wasn’t awesome enough, to my great glee and delight I notice that the list contains books by no less than four of the Trapped By Monsters posse! Joe’s Jimmy Coates: Power, Andy’s Hero.com: Virus Attack and Ali’s The Shapeshifter: Stirring the Storm are all there, together with my own The Black Tattoo. Go us!

As you’ll see if you click here to take a look, there are some truly wonderful books on this list. I’m hugely thrilled and honoured that one of mine has been included. HEE HEE HEE HEE!

Sam