OK, with my own new book Crawlers coming in April I’m obviously biased(!) but I think 2010 is going to go down as a great year for thrilling new young people’s literature – particularly if you like stories that come in a series. Not “only” has our very own Barry Hutchison’s Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles [...]
Category > Brilliant Books!
Let’s get reeeady to Mummmble!
There is now just over one week until my first ‘proper’ book – Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles – is officially published. It’s possible you may start to see it in bookshops before then, though, and if you do it’d be fab if you could let me know. It’s a very exciting feeling having your first [...]
The Fantastic Percy Jackson!
If you’ve not yet read a Percy Jackson book yet, then get yourselves to the library, or your nearest bookshop without delay and get one immediately! I think it’s one of the best series out there at the moment and was very excited to discover that the first book of the series Percy Jackson and [...]
The Magnificent Mr Carey
One of the highlights of 2009 for me was discovering the work of Mike Carey. I first got into his writing through the Felix Castor novels, a series of wonderfully bleak and atmospheric supernatural mysteries involving a hardbitten exorcist and his adventures in the darkest corners of London. But my growing addiction to Carey’s particular [...]
‘Everyone’s Reading’ …our books! :D
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 [...]
One for The Road
Monsters don’t tend to be big fans of human-made monster films, and when you consider what happens to monsters in most of those stories that’s hardly surprising. But I’ve noticed that some human movies attract a lot of attention from our captors: one, in particular, the monsters have been waiting for avidly. Last night I [...]
CHEW this! The first review of 2010!
A whole new year, indeed, decade, will spring many exciting announcements from the Monster Caves – and I for one am giddy with excitement! Even in the dank caves we managed to get our grubby mitts on some excellent books which we’ll review over the next few months. I was delighted to read a graphic [...]
Hint!
I hope that everyone reading this had a very fine Christmas, and that your presents were just what you wanted. Did you receive Book Tokens, by any chance? Are you looking for suggestions on what to get with them? Well, it happens that just off the top of my head I can think of seven [...]
Invisible Fiends: Mr Mumbles teaser trailer
I had a seemingly endless number of technical problems while trying to get this thing shot and edited, and the finished video is nothing like I had intended. It was really just cobbled together from the few bits of footage on the video that hadn’t been corrupted by the faulty tape heads. Anyway, this is [...]
And Another Thing…
It’s taken me a while to get to as – well, I’m trapped in a cave by slavering monsters – but I’ve finally managed to sit down and read And Another Thing… – the sixth installment of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series, written by Eoin Colfer. Now, I suspected I might enjoy [...]
