May We Recommend – Theresa Tomlinson

David Bennett on the Novels of Theresa Tomlinson

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May We Recommend… Vernon Scannell

Gordon Dennis on the verse of Vernon Scannell

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May We Recommend - Philip Pullman

We asked Geoff Fox to take a look at the writer whose first book was How to be Cool and who, appropriately for our picture book edition, has recently published two graphic novels.

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May We Recommend - Graeme Base

Chris Powling on THE ELEVENTH H0UR OF GRAEME BASE

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May we recommend - Allan Baillie

It's not often that a relative newcomer writes a string of unputdownables. Val Bierman caught up with this exciting Australian author on a flying visit to the UK.

Anyone reading Allan Baillie's books will quickly realise that he has his own distinctive style; a flair for creating suspense, an uncanny knack of understanding an emotional crisis in children, and all revolving around a search, either for adventure or. more often, for identity.

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May We Recommend - James Watson

Stephanie Nettell recommends James Watson

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May We Recommend - Rudolf Frank

No Hero for the Kaiser by Rudolf Frank

Patricia Crampton's translation of this remarkable German novel was published last year. She writes here of its author, its history and of what it has to offer to today's readers.

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May we recommend… Paula Danziger

Val Bierman finds that Paula Danziger knows how to get young teenage `non-readers' hooked.

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May We Recommend... Jean Little

Chris Stephenson's choice is Jean Little

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