Welcome to Smugglivus 2014! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2014, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2015, and more. Who: Sophia McDougall, Scifi and Fantasy writer, author of one of our top Middle Grade reads of 2014, Mars Evacuees Please give a warm welcome to Sophia, everyone! Hey, I actually did read a fair number of 2014 books in 2014! Normally I am at least three years late to everything. And indeed, many of my favourite discoveries of last year were years or even decades old, and many of the books I’m most looking forward to have been around for a while. It is very likely that you do not need to be told that you should read Shirley Jackson, Mary Stewart and L.M Montgomery’s non-Anne Of Green Gables work, but I wish someone had told me these things earlier, so before we carry on: if you haven’t read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Madam Will You Talk, or The Blue Castle, and yet you feel a need for a creepy psychodrama, a splendidly civilised car-chase around the French Pyrenees, […]