Waterstone's admitted it had blundered after recommending a novel packed full of expletives, sex and violence for children as young as eight.
Grisly crime book Sawbones, the story of a serial killer who tours the US murdering young women, was featured by the retailer in a children's catalogue as suitable for "reluctant, struggling or dyslexic readers aged eight-plus". The first sentence contains the F-word, reported the Sunday Times. "Over the next 113 pages it used the F-word and its variant 89 times," it went on. "The plot includes three male castrations, references to oral sex, limbs being amputated and an attack on a girl by a vicious dog."
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