Children's books: Difficult friends

Out and about: Young Adult gay fiction

While living on a narrow boat on the Macclesfield Canal, Liz Kessler had two book ideas.

Plotting pirates

The first piratical act in Daniel Handler's We Are Pirates is a flamboyant burst of shoplifting by teenage Gwen.

Children's books: Hard of herring

Children’s books: Outside interests

War in the woods

New children's books include Morris Gleitzman's 'After', Daniel Handler's 'Why we broke up' and 'The Witchtree Journals: Emily's story' by Diane Greene

Children's books: butterflies, cakes and Horrid Henry's Jubilee moment

Interview: Anthony Horowitz

We meet the prolific and versatile writer behind the 'official' return of Sherlock Holmes.

Top of the tales in 2009

Our children’s books editor looks back at past highlights, rounds up the current crop and anticipates some of those to come.

How the Chronicle revealed the ice-cream plot

In store for 2010

'Tis Jolly to be flies

Snogs and a sticky snack

Children's Books

Writers wanted!

Children's books: Prayers to unite belief systems

Review: Necropolis