Flashback: The Amazing Adventures of a Film Horse

With its most eyecatching cover in the gaudy colours of 1950s vintage cowboy films and an amazingly clever alliterative chapter list (any word you like as long as it begins with F), this has to be the sort of book 'they' love and we think we're going to hate, hide and keep off the shelves. Wrong. Any book that has a major character saying on the first page 'Reading is very important' gets my vote for sentiments if not for subtlety. The story is exciting and funny with horses, but it's not 'horsey', and cowboys but it isn't a western. It's about as deceptive and misleading as the world Anthony and Flash discover when they become involved in the movies.