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Top 11 YA books with ghosts
For the lovers of the spooky, the supernatural, the macabre, or the outright terrifying, here are 11 books for young adults that feature hauntings from beyond the grave.
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Features
I recently answered a questionnaire from my local bookshop, Roaring Stories. The last question asked me what my ...
Each month gr features an upcoming book that we will be discussing in an online book club. Our July book selection ...
FALASTIN is a love letter to Palestine, the land and its people; an evocative collection of over 110 unforgettable ...
Lisa Ireland, author of the new title The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan, spoke to gr about the themes and motifs ...
gr chats with Josephine Moon about her new book The Cakemaker's Wish.
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Life in the village ...
Henry Weaver is missing and Chloe is determined to find out what happened to her friend. She’s a determined young ...
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Reviews
Hannah is a 27-year-old dispensing optician who is house-sitting her uncle’s cottage and dog in Grantchester, a ...
Erika, as a young child, is on an enormous yacht in open ocean off Hong Kong, with her cruel, dismissive mother, ...
It’s always an interesting exercise for an author to feature a known literary figure in a fictional story. Swan ...
Jo Lennan’s collection of short stories, In the Time of Foxes, could be just the thing to read to soothe any ...
Tohby Riddle’s books are usually quirky and unusual – and this one is no different. The astronaut’s cat of the ...
On my 12th birthday my big sister gave me a beautiful leather-bound copy of Tales from Shakespeare by Charles ...
If you are a lover of poetry then this is the book for you.
Sabrina Mahfouz takes us on a journey around our ...
This is a lovely gentle story about two friends: a little black beetle and a rather loveable red caterpillar. ...
The small town of Eerie-on-Sea is being battered by an unusually fierce storm that seems to blow so hard that the ...
Clever Cakes contains two very short stories that are comical and fun to read.
In our first story, also titled ...
Aterrorist attack, 100 lives lost and the scapegoating of the Muslim community to further political ambition. ...
What kind of body of work makes a memoir? Author and academic Ellena Savage answers this question in a myriad of ...
If, like me, you’re curious to know about the soul of Lagos, Nigeria’s oil-rich, largest city, with a human ...
In Ecclesiastes it does say, ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ and that certainly goes for pandemics. But the ...
In Enemy of All Mankind Stephen Johnson gives us an account of how a motley collection of European pirates - ...
The context of The Yellow Bird Sings is one that, unfortunately, we’re all too familiar with. At the centre of the ...
Serenata has run, swim and cycled all her life – on her own and long before it became fashionable. Now she’s hit ...
You could, if you wished, consume this slim novella in one sitting. Please don’t. This is not fast food; this is a ...
Van Diemen’s Land was a treacherous place in the early days of the colony. Our narrator, Mr Gabriel Fox, comes to ...
Mammut is the fossilised remains of a 13,354-year-old extinct American mammoth (Mammut americanum). It is 2007 and ...
Ten-year-old Vivian has a burning ambition – to compete at the Olympics. The trouble is that she is not sure what ...
Padman O’Donnell and the rest of the 6PU class have been lulled into a false sense of security. Their ...
Just when life has settled into a comfortable familiarity and Shoestring is developing his wonderful aerial skills ...
Max is five, has autism and is low functioning. His big brother, Frank, is 10 and he loves numbers and coding, ...
Butterfly Yellow is about an 18-year-old Vietnamese girl named Hằng, who is separated from her younger brother at ...
The prologue in this book sets the scene. A scene of violence – family violence. Related by the teenage daughter ...
But what could I do about it? That was the question that 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey was asking herself. This ...
What is the link between the International Harvester company and modern forensic science?
It was dollars, ...
Released in 1993, the video game ‘Doom’ became such a cultural phenomenon that even non-gamers were talking about ...
Demographics is an under-appreciated science but one which can offer powerful insights into how a society really ...
If you are familiar with Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, then Falastin is the cookbook you might have been waiting ...
Long-time business journalist Karina Kilmore ably taps into her well-trodden beat with her debut crime novel, an ...
From the early pages of his first novel starring deaf Swedish journalist Tuva Moodyson, Will Dean showed a great ...
French crime writer Johana Gustawsson is a smiling assassin: her series, starring profiler Emily Roy and true ...
It’s clear from Swanson’s excellent novels such as The Kind Worth Killing that he has a real love for the history ...
Alistair Haston has just broken up with his girlfriend, Ellie. She has left for Greece where her family runs a ...
There is a tendency in British crime thrillers for the villains to have redeeming features, and for both sides of ...
While it is common for actors to employ method acting to get into a role, it is rare to see a writer employ ...
Two city-states, Rise and Shine, are all that’s left after an apocalypse has destroyed the world as we know it. In ...
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