STAGS: Nine students. Three blood sports. One deadly weekend.

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As to the subject matter, the personal agonies of the speaker are, to be sure, presented with the painful honesty which is held nowadays to ensure poetic quality. I don’t believe it ever does, but to say anything disapproving about such sincere disclosures of anguish would leave me open to the accusation of not being a warm, caring human being, a charge which I would find so woundingly hurtful that I feel I have no choice but passively to allow emotional honesty to fulfill its role of forestalling criticism, and be silent. About the style of this verse, however, I feel no such reticence. How does your main protagonist, Greer, develop through the series, and her romantic interests in the novel, Shafeen and Henry? Book 5, entitled HAWKS, is set in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Most of the action takes place in a castle on the Isle of Skye. Later on in the book, she loses brain function every time Shafeen looks at her because OMG HE LIKES HER

The books explore - and expose - the gulf that exists between Britain's classes and offers a critique of the class system. Why did you want to explore this area? The writing itself was fine if slightly over-descriptive and I did find myself bored and as a consequence skimming slightly.STAGS is a series set in and around ST Aidan the Great School, an ancient and exclusive boarding school. A good-looking and wealthy clique called The Medievals rule the school, and despise anything modern or technological, dubbing it 'Savage'. But it soon transpires that their favourite weekend blood sports - Huntin' Shootin' and Fishin' - have a macabre twist. So this is told exclusively from Greer's POV and Greer, Chanel and another student Shafeen: Indian royalty but who doesn't fit in either are invited to the estate of classmate Henry de Warlencourt along with his fellow medievals Cookson, Piers, Charlotte, Esme and Lara for a weekend of huntin, shootin, fishin. Greer has just received a scholarship to the prestigious S.T.A.G.S boarding school. As expected though, she doesn't fit in. These kids are the ultimate in privilege; years and years of entitlement and 'Old money' have led to a 'mean girls' like group known as medievals.

First of all I didn't read the first book S. T. A. G. S . However falling in love with The Island, is a book that I want to buy at some point. Always the characters for me. The thriller/horror elements are fun to write, but I like to see where the characters take me, particularly in their relationships with each other. Oo that's a tough one! I love them both. Shafeen is such a fine upstanding young man, who always does the right thing, and Henry is a villain looking for redemption. I think Henry's my Jamie Lannister from Game of Thrones - at the beginning of the series Jamie's a murderous incestuous baddie, and by the end you're rooting for him to sit on the Iron Throne. Henry has a bit more of a journey to go on than Shafeen, but if I was Greer, I don't know which one I'd choose! S.T.A.G.S. is the type of book that you remember as being better than it actually was because the premise is so good that you want to forgive it for any tactical errors. It was a strange creature, a blend of cheesy horror cast in the vein of the old Point Horror novels I used to devour as a preteen, but also hauntingly Gothic with passages so dramatic that I reread them a second time.

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From one of today's best poets—a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. About now we discover that Chanel is missing. Along with all the hunting dogs. About 50 dogs vanished and nobody notices anything until they lose Chanel. Of course not. Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | August 2017 Debut of the MonthIt is the autumn term and Greer MacDonald is struggling to settle into the sixth form at the exclusive St. Aidan the Great boarding school, known to its privileged pupils as S.T.A.G.S. Just when she despairs of making friends Greer receives a mysterious invitation with three words embossed upon on it: huntin' shootin' fishin'. When Greer learns that the invitation is to spend the half term weekend at the country manor of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular and wealthy boy at S.T.A.G.S., she is as surprised as she is flattered. But when Greer joins the other chosen few at the ancient and sprawling Longcross Hall, she realises that Henry's parents are not at home; the only adults present are a cohort of eerily compliant servants. The students are at the mercy of their capricious host, and, over the next three days, as the three bloodsports - hunting, shooting and fishing - become increasingly dark and twisted, Greer comes to the horrifying realisation that those being hunted are not wild game, but the very misfits Henry has brought with him from school... Henry and his five friends are known as the Medievals; they’re the unofficial prefects of the school – all tall, beautiful, intelligent and high on their own sense of power. Greer is initially surprised and then flattered to be not only noticed by them, but to be invited into their inner sanctum, and so she accepts the invitation to go huntin’ shootin’ fishin’. Along with two other carefully selected misfit students, Greer arrives at the ancient, sprawling Longcross Hall, where she realises that the only adults are Henry’s silent and obedient servants. What could possibly go wrong? But when Greer joins the other chosen few at the ancient and sprawling Longcross Hall, she realises that Henry's parents are not at home; the only adults present are a cohort of eerily compliant servants. The students are at the mercy of their capricious host, and, over the next three days, as the three bloodsports - hunting, shooting and fishing - become increasingly dark and twisted, Greer comes to the horrifying realization that those being hunted are not wild game, but the very misfits Henry has brought with him from school...