Authors

  • Guy Bass:  Hugh Dunnit Mysteries

    Guy Bass: Hugh Dunnit Mysteries

    Guy Bass introduces Hugh Dunnit, 'a self-styled detective who loves nothing more than cracking cases and solving mysteries - even when there are no mysteries to be solved.' Guy is an award-winning author who has written more than 30 books, including the best-selling Sti...

  • Alexandra Sheppard

    Alexandra Sheppard

    Alexandra Sheppard introduces her latest novel, Alyssa and the Spell Garden, exploring community, teamwork - and the magic of nature. Alexandra was born in North London, where she still lives with her family. Oh My Gods was her f...

  • Catherine Cawthorne & Sara Ogilvie

    Catherine Cawthorne & Sara Ogilvie

    Catherine Cawthorne's Big Bad Wolf Investigates explores the science behind our favourite fairy tales... Growing up, Catherine wanted to be an author. She spent most of her childhood either up a tree, reading, or forming secret societies in her best friend's shed. Catherine no...

  • Katie and Kevin Tsang

    Katie and Kevin Tsang

    Authors Katie and Kevin Tsang introduce their new Dragon Force adventure, Devourer's Attack, in this special ReadingZone feature. Katie grew up in California, and also writes YA as Katherine Webber. Kevin was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, but grew up in Atlanta, Georgia.  They met while...

  • Steve Webb

    Steve Webb

    Steve Webb tells ReadingZone about his hilarious new graphic novel about the newest superheroes in town, Peng and Spanners! Steve is an author of middle-grade and picture books, as well as a graphic designer. His first middle-grade series was the magnificently bonkers S...

  • Sally Nicholls

    Sally Nicholls

    Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick and then travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan, before undertaking a masters in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa. It was here that she wrot...

  • Becky Albertalli

    Becky Albertalli

    Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat. She is also the co-author of What If It’s Us with Adam Silvera. A former clinical psychologist who specialised in working with childr...

  • Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media. Sara graduated in 2010 and became a content writer at an international online healthcare company in London - but what she had always wanted do was to be a writer. Sara had...