Horrible guardians, an absent mother and a child who enters a secret laboratory make for enjoyable reads
Children’s fiction: Five books to delight the younger reader with tales of magical cats, geese and squirrels - and a busy girl called Wanda
Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland – A quaffable and comprehensive history that leaves the reader with a thirst for moreThe Whale Tattoo and The Gallopers by Jon Ransom: A pair of intriguing, imperfect novels Rosa’s shifting roster of feline co-stars is also a great part of the appeal. None of them is as memorable as the mollycoddled, food-fussy Balthazar, however. Just ask Rosa, who pays tribute to him in the final passages of the book with a touching postcard.Maori mythology features in Land of the Last Wild Cat. Photograph: iStockphoto
Ecological themes are deftly woven into The Last Wild Cat, which intersects with Maori myth and the ethics of animal rights. In its respectable villain, Professor Smoult, it challenges ideas of scientific progress and in Puffin’s quest it animates an unusual island idyll where humans have left nature untouched.Over the Red-Brick ChimneyAs Little Goose prepares to return to the Arctic after a mild Irish winter, she finds herself lost in a snowstorm.
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