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Nizrana Farook was born and raised in Sri Lanka, where the beautiful landscapes of the country have inspired her novels, The Girl Who Stole an Elephant and The Boy Who Met a Whale.
Dictionaries & language learning Col 1 Dictionaries Paul Noble Easy learning languages Free dictionary resourcesThe Very Merry Murder Club is a collection of thirteen short wintery mysteries edited by Serena Patel and Robin Stevens with gorgeous illustrations by Harry Woodgate.
Thirteen of the UK’s wonderful children’s writers present wintry stories of deception, surprises, game-playing, injustice, suspicion and mystery. Every one is complete, unique and entirely gripping. What’s more, like other good compilations such as Happy Here, every story is so satisfying that we feel a lurch to move onto the next…. until! With stunning illustrations by Harry Woodgate. Join them as part of the Very Merry Murder Club as they lead you on a snow-covered wintery journey of festive foul play and murderously magnificent mysteries! Serena Patel was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize and was a finalist in the Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2018. Her debut children’s series Anisha Accidental Detective won the fiction category of the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, being shortlisted for a British Book Award and the Blue Peter Prize 2021 and selected for The Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge. The title is a bit deceiving as most of the stories are NOT murder mysteries! Just mysteries which is fine but I believed it to be something else, because, you know THE TITLE! I loved the illustrations, there style was just so much fun, though I just wish there were more of them and not just one per story. Haha. Sadly this fell short on both mystery and Christmas spirit.Some of these stories didn't feel like.mysteries at all and a lot of them had little or no relevance to Christmas.Since this year I am trying to actually follow my reading goals and not forget I ever made them after two days, I have decided to DNF this anthology. It's just not for me and I am not getting anything out of it, so I see no reason to push through when I could already be moving on to the next read that has more potential to be amazing and breath-taking. Ha sido una lectura entretenida, pero la verdad es que esperaba mucho más. Como siempre, valorar una antología es difícil, porque no todos los relatos gustan por igual. Serena Patel was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize and was a finalist in the Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2018. Her debut children’s series Anisha Accidental Detective won the fiction category of the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, being shortlisted for a British Book Award and the Blue Peter Prize 2021 and selected for The Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge. Serena lives in Walsall with her family. There's something here for every one, a brilliant range of stories in different styles with different kinds of representation, and so, so many mysteries to solve!
The Very Merry Murder Club is a brilliant new anthology, featuring short stories from a range of top authors!'- Booktrust The Frostwilds by Dominique Valente was a creepy but delightful fairytale with echoes of The Snow Queen and The Hunger Games fantastically paced and creativeThis was SO difficult not to read but I really wanted to save this boy for Christmas. And I managed to do that, but I had to hold myself in many a time.
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