Let their imaginations take flight: SALLY MORRRIS chooses the best children’s books of the year 

MOUSE’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Tracey Corderoy illustrated by Sarah Massini (Nosy Crow £6.99) PICTURE BOOKS MOUSE’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Tracey Corderoy illustrated by Sarah Massini (Nosy Crow £6.99) ’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house’ . . . except here a lonely little mouse is very much stirring, making a … Read more

New book tells the tale of the love story between Sally Landau and her chess pro husband Tal 

CHESS Checkmate!  by Sally Landau (Elk and Ruby £17.99, 223 pp) No one said it was easy to be married to a genius. Especially one with appalling medical problems. Yet that was Sally Landau’s choice. In 1959, at the age of 19, she married Mikhail ‘Misha’ Tal. A year later he was to become, at … Read more