{M&B books: 55} {Other books: 14} {Online books: 1}

The best of the August-by-mail, October-in-the-shops bunch I think.  Lucy King won the 'Feel the Heat' competition with this submission and the editors picked a good one here.  I hope she keeps up such an excellent standard in future books and she is one to watch.  The premise is very unusual and I look forward to her plot devices to come.

Once I got Joanna Lumley's voice out of my head ( Northern Lights programme remember?) and stopped reading it as a travelogue, this was a fantastic read.  I actually made myself leave it a week then re read it again.  This makes me want M&B to get more writers to be as adventurous as Kate Hardy and write Nordic & Baltic countries Heroes please!  I hope Kate Hardy's book sets off a new