This was tough, but brilliant and engaging. Subhi lives in a detention camp - I was imagining something like the Calais jungle - where he dreams of the outside, of a better life. This grows tantalisingly closer when he meets Jimmie, a gi...
Albie's mum passed away recently, so now it is just him and his Dad, a famous scientist. Intrigued by the idea of parallel universes, Albie sets up his own experiment which takes him to lands of alternate existences, a glimpse into what ...
This should easily a contender for book of the year - it is simply magical. Set on Culion Island in the Phillipines, we are introduced to Ami. Her mother is afflicted with leprosy and, led by the fantastically venomous Mr Zamora, will so...
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