Another new series which promises to be a big hit with young readers . . . Abie Longstaff is a great writer for young children, who knows just how to capture her readers' attention and encourage them to enjoy reading

Every age has reinvented the Bard in its own image. Renaissance Man or post-modern angst... Shakespeare haunts our language

Shakespeare was the most consummate genius of all time

Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third

Every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself

Shakespeare is the best thing that ever happened to this country

Shakespeare modernised the form of the sonnet, and transformed it from a stylised, courtly love shtick to a fluent and flexible form that could turn itself to any subject

With his perfect pacing, lack of sentimentality and refusal to submit to a neat end, Boyne has written one of the children’s books of the year

A powerful new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and it is equally atmospheric and disturbing . . . Mesmerizing

Another winner

Compelling and thought-provoking