Not for me: queue for release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
When you pick up a novel in a bookshop and cast your eye over the blurb, or read a review, what are the words and phrases that instantly make your heart sink? Indeed, cause you to put that book straight back on the pile and stop reading without further ado?
Top of my list is ‘dystopian’. The minute the word hoves into view, that author and publisher
