The Killjoy - Anne Fine

There I was stood in my local library, fishing around at the last minute looking for a handful of books to take with me on a week’s break not so long back. I always tend to avoid the hardback books when I can and head straight for the paperbacks. For some reason, they always appear to have more character to them. You can feel just how many people have picked up a book and leafed through it. You can almost feel them urging you to take it home with you, too. I love paperbacks, and that’s all there is to it. My fingers edged their way along the side of the bookshelf, skimming over spines here and there, until they stopped at a quite sad looking ...  Read the complete review