Kids’ Lit Quiz does what it says on the tin. It spans the globe and involves hundreds of schools in the UK alone. There are heats all over the country and they always include teams of authors and librarians as well as loads of pupil teams. The author teams are easy to spot: they’re the…
It’s a question Freddy Mercury used to ask. It’s also one that the BBC’s Nick Higham raised when interviewing Kazuo Ishiguro recently about his new novel, Buried. (You’ll find the interview at the end of this post.) And it’s a question we’ve often asked about Gillian Philip‘s Rebel Angels series – Firebrand, Bloodstone, Wolfsbane and…
The Bookwitch’s year-end round up has been posted. It’s like an advent calendar without ads…or vents. And – just like those little venty windows – it’s always a joy to open. All the more so (for us anyway) for it making mention of Gillian Philip‘s rather brilliant Icefall. https://bookwitch.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/best-of-2014/ For the uninitiated, Icefall is book 4 (the final…
Icefall – the breathtaking 4th book in Gillian Philip‘s Rebel Angels series – is now available as an ebook as well as in paperback. [metaslider id=1734] If you haven’t read any of the series yet, our advice is this: before you start, tell your friends (and even your family!) you’ve gone on holiday for a few…
Scottish Book Trust have listed Icefall – the fourth book in Gillian Philip‘s acclaimed Rebel Angels series – as one of the dozen Scottish books to look forward to in 2014. It’s out on 18 March…just enough time to read Firebrand, Bloodstone and Wolfsbane if you haven’t already…or re-read them if you have! Click here to…
Watch: Rebel Angels trailer – Firebrand, Bloodstone and Wolfsbane. Also watch: the trailer for Bad Faith, Gillian‘s murderously sinister dystopian satire.