Singing the SadnessFew writers in the genre today have Hills gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace Sunday Times Joe Sixsmith is going west. But only as far as Wales where they keep a welcome in the hillside and the Boyling Corner Choir has been invited to the Llanfugiol Choral Festival. Trouble is, no one seems to have heard of Llanfugiol. And instead of a welcome, all they find on the hillside is a

Behind its layers of security

Outstanding

sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband

the man is simply incapable of writing a bad book' IAN WILLIAMS

and a girl from his own mysterious past

upon the desert shores

suffering from untreatable tuberculosis

Philip Pullman garnered every accolade with the breathtaking His Dark Materials trilogy

the Sixteenth Year

once a Colonel in the British Army

but add in an arrest for murder

the devolved race of future humans from whom he was forced to flee