Cool Stuff in the Times

There's lots of cool stuff in today's Times.

Amanda Craig reviews Rick Riordan's Sea of Monsters and The Pig Who Saved the World, by Paul Shipton.

Margaret Reynolds reconsiders Treasure Island and finds, "the anarchy of the piratical life appeals: a return to a fantasised childhood where definitions blur and rules don’t apply."

And, Amanda Craig talks to Anthony Horowitz on the eve of the release of Stormbreaker in the U.K.