Maphead
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Cover Story
July's front cover features the hardback version of Paula Danziger's Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James, using an illustration by Joe Csatari. The book is published by Heinemann and we're grateful to them for their help. For further details see the Authorgraph interview with Paula Danziger.
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Maphead
And now for something completely different... It's amazing, but true, that Lesley Howarth has pulled off this piece of weird storytelling, where the utterly fantastic seems plausible. Maphead is a child resulting from the coupling of an alien from the parallel Subtle World and an earth woman whom he saved from a bolt of lightning. Alien and boy return to Rubytown for a reunion between son and mother, but complications arise when feelings and love begin to intrude on what was intended as purely a fact-finding mission. Rites of passage with a difference.