Please Don't Read The Footnotes PleaseA middle grade book breaking all the rules, inviting readers to zig zag across the page between the funny stories and the* footnotes. Traditionally, once a book is published, the author's job is over. The book belongs to the reader after that, and it's up to you to decide what the book is about. Author Rob Walton** is having none of this, and has insisted on popping up throughout this book with comments, suggestions and general chatter, to keep you

I will lose my mind

A picture book of love

the Soviet Union

have haunted his imagination

A generational portrait of Latin America in its post-revolutionary come-down

Christopher Locke was born in Laconia

‘imaginative’ and ‘luminous’

Seventeen years later Vladan’s discovery that he is the son of a fugitive war criminal sends him off on a journey round the Balkans to find his elusive father where he also finds out how the falling apart of his family is closely linked with the disintegration of the world they used to live in

art and architecture

sly humour and verbal invention

Inspired by the true-story of the Winchester Mystery House in California

Another theme is the mortality of the human body