The Devil's Diagonal
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BfK No. 60 - January 1990
Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from War Boy: A Country Childhood, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published in October 1989 by Pavilion Books (185145 353 9, £9.99). We are grateful to Pavilion for help in using this illustration.
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(Richard Drew)
978-0862672584, RRP £2.25, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
An often tense fantasy which uses a solid rooting in geography to mix folklore and devilish powers with modern nuclear power. At times it is like Garner, harsh and real, with dark forces breaking powerfully into the everyday, as in the scene where we watch a helicopter crash. It will grip the imaginations of a range of 2nd and 3rd years and may be the bridge into a small treasure of good fantasy novels.
