Thunder Road

By stiffly following convention we stifle creativity. We miss out on unexpected and fresh combinations of words-ideas-sounds-images that have the power of new.

Adults are reading YA fiction. As they should be.

These are the books that I loved as a lad - and a few I recommend today.

The Young Adult (YA) category of novel didn’t exist when I was a kid. Sure, there were plenty of books that would have been categorised YA if they’d been published today but mostly it was just kids’ fiction or fiction for everyone else. Depending on your reading level in the upper primary school years, you’d [...]