I have followed your posts with interest and particularly your frustration with not being picked up by a publisher. It is very difficult to convince a publisher to take on rhyming stories for children. Although children love verse, too many authors submit doggerel, where the internal sense of the po... view book

Perhaps it's meant to be whimsical, but the writing style is patronizing. view book

An entertaining book, and very authentically eighteenth century/early nineteenth century Gothic in tone. I was thrown a bit by how many anachronistic names there were - though delighted to find that Erconwald was a saint. A couple of times the narrative bogged down for me - the stuff about Westernes... view book

Thank you for asking me to read your book. It's not only well written, but it has scenes in it that are genuinely moving. It also has echoes in it of classics like Tom's Midnight Garden and Goodnight Mister Tom, without being derivative. Because there is so much that's good here, I thought I'd di... view book

Thanks for asking me to read this. I've read the first three chapters and it's rapidly turning into an intriguing story, complete with treasure. I certainly wish some solicitor would stop me in the street and offer me a fortune, and teenagers are even more keen on unexpected wealth than I am, so I t... view book