Ironically, it’s not the ghost stories, monsters or undead that will scare you…it goes much deeper than that. Although historically, horror has provided popular, imaginative stories from Frankenstein to Carrie, i’ts hard to deny that in recent times the critical opinion of the genre has slipped. I mean if the literary world was a classroom, [...]

In the UK, recently published league tables show that one in ten schools have failed to meet the Government’s target when it comes to pupils’ literacy levels. Don’t worry, dear reader. This article isn’t about UK politics, or a rant about how the Government ought to be doing more for school education. No, instead I’ll [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

This novel takes place at the time of the early 1980s, against the context of the troubled relations between Northern and Southern Ireland; the aftermath of the death of IRA member Bobby Sands; as well as a further period of IRA terrorist attacks. What makes this novel crucially different from other works of fiction is [...]