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I read as many children's books (those for age 10/11 and over) and YA books as adult books. I don't think it's a 'moving on' thing, though possibly some people grow out of it in the same way that you can grow out of fashions. It is certainly not a lesser genre or area of writing because it has a...

The Otterbury Incident - C. Day-Lewis: brilliant neglected book.

Yes, you're right. I was getting confused with the titles.

I've pretty much read all of her fiction for older kids. I haven't read Power of Three, the last two of the Dalemark Quartet, or The Year of the Griffin. A good many of her books seem to be out of print at the moment, so it would be easiest to find them second-hand on Amazon. I first read...

I have read it and thought it very good, but was a little let down by the ending - doesn't he get back to where he had left? I would prefer a darker end for him - getting back and everything being different. It is, though, a more cerebral book than the Abarat books, which are repetitive...

Yes, I'd forgotten Jostein Gaarder. The Christmas Mystery also takes a journey across Europe, in the company of the visitors to the stable.

I would have included the Bullerby children books as they are amongst my favourite books for young children, but they are very hard to find in print.

There is a book called The Canary-Coloured Cart which is the tale of a family who up and tour around Europe in a yellow Dormobile, doing home-schooling for the kids and travelling to places according to Hans Christian Anderson's stories and learning about them by visiting places. The...

The Thief Lord is the sequel to Inkheart. Does he want contemporary fiction? Aidan Chambers' Postcards from No-Man's Land is set in WW2 and in modern Amsterdam; various WW2 novels cover children travelling through Europe - The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier is excellent, and also When...

Dark Skies

Other than Anne Rice... Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Comte de Saint Germain novels, Fevre Dream - George R .R. Martin I am Legend - Richard Matheson The Keep - F. Paul Wilson The Vampyre and Supping with Panthers - Tom Holland (Lord Byron as a vampire). The Vampire Diaries - LJ Smith...

I think it's mortifying to know that you're likely to have to sacrifice yourself for someone you despise and think is a fool and an idiot. That is where I believe the books will bear out what readers suspect about JKR's overall theme - that of love and sacrifice - and whether her religious...

It's a line that JKR wrote - it's just in the US version and not in the UK version. I'll hunt it out if I can.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Other Stories. Danny Champion of the World is okay too. I can't stand the rest.

There is also an additional part-sentence referring to the Malfoys, which doesn't appear in the UK edition.

I like them because of Snape principally. And the Marauders-era stuff. And Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood. but mostly because of Snape. (and not because of Alan Rickman either)

I'm not actually bothered by it being horrible and violent but I thought it was rather artificially done and out of tone with the rest of the writing which was of a level for 10's and 11's rather than older kids. The villagers were just cliched from start to finish and it sounded very...

Snape's fear would be that he will have to (inevitably) sacrifice himself to save Harry and finish off Voldemort, which considering his great hatred of Harry and James, would be not just mortifying but a sacrifice which it is hard to conceive. He will do it for the sake of Lily and the fact that...

I agree that The Eternity Code is the best. There was too much confusing action in the last book.

I thought Raven's Gate was a load of hogwash and inferior to the Alex Rider series. It read like a cheap children's adventure series from the 70's with a load of C21st violence thrown in.