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Kid Lit Reviews – May 2013

“The writing is very good. One chapter leads into the next, making it darn-right difficult not to turn a page and keep reading. Finn, and most of the other characters, are so well defined that they come to life right off the page, including little Hercules.” Click here to read the full review Amend – 28th May 2013 “I must tell you that after
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Books Monthly – The Dream Dealer is Children’s Book of the Month, March 2013

Books Monthly have voted The Dream Dealer their Children’s Book of the Month for March 2013 “This is a real gem – it crashes straight in to Finn’s life at home, with real, believable conflict between him and his father, then at school, where he’s the butt of everyone’s jokes, treated like a leper, bullied and set upon. But somewhere else, there’s a Dream
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Philip Womack Reviews The Dream Dealer

Novelist and reviewer Philip Womack gives his opinion on The Dream Dealer Click here to read the article


First Eleven Magazine – Spring 2012


The Guardian Children’s Book Site – December 2011

“My absolute best book I’ve read this year” Click here to read more


Chronicles USA – February 2012


The Arab Times – January 2012

The Arab Times – January 2012


The Spectator – November 2011

“…Also set at school, but altogether darker in tone, is The Dream Dealer by Marita Phillips. This privately published paper-back (order through Amazon or via www.thedreamdealer.co.uk at £4.99) is a great deal better than many conventionally published books I am sent. It is the story of the luckless Finn, who lives with his drunken father and yearns to find his long lost mother, who
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The Chester Standard – Spring 2011