A little contribution to the wonderful Wunderdog Magazine about supporting men's mental health, and the wonder of dogs:...

I loved this Puffin cover of Penelope Lively's ghostly comic tale when I first saw it in a school book club magazine. So much so I used...

I love the cover of this edition of Alan Garner's classic 'Elidor'. The image of a boy in a parker jacket (identical to mine and...

The first novel by John Gordon, in 1968, was largely successful (and followed by a little known sequel called Ride the Wind) and tells of...

Ah now, one of my personal favourites. In Susan Cooper's magnificent sequence of novels, The Dark is Rising, two books stand out for me....

One of the most iconic book covers of my youth, this Lions version of TLTW&TW. I found the concept of the story, with its strong imagery,...

Remember when you were first waking to the magic of fantasy writing? For me, it was in the mid-80s, when Alan Garner and Susan Cooper, in...