Playing with Fire
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This month we feature the cover of Chris Powling's latest title, Where the Quaggy Bends (see Authorgraph). The book is published in July by HarperCollins (0 00 185417 8, £7.99; 0 00 674087 1, £3.50 pbk) and we are grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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Playing with Fire
John Levers
Anthony Masters plays a dangerous game with considerable skill. St Elmer's Primary have moved to a new building, formerly an abbey. In the excitement the story about the masked monk's treasure buried somewhere on the site gains cult status. But here the familiar genre ends, ominous things lurk in the boiler room and the teachers begin to behave peculiarly; setting fire to the boiler house and seeing a devil around the smoke stack are only a part of it. Amid the mayhem we have one calm voice of reality, a yardstick that makes the macabre happenings more believable. Masterly skill indeed.