David Almond (Picture Books)
David Almond spent his childhood in Newcastle playing football, camping with his friends and singing as an...
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Jumana Rahman
Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to pr...
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Chloe Savage
Chloe Savage was born and raised in Stevenage. She has a First Class BA Honours in...
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Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent
Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...
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Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer worked as a teacher before turning his attention to full-time writing for children. He is best known for his phe...
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Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick and then t...
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PA Staff
PA Staff is a science communicator and vet by day, writer by night. Born and living in Norfolk, she spent her childhood grow...
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Peter Brown
Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...
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Dashe Roberts
Dashe Roberts has spent most of her life living on either coast of the US. After several years working in the New York theat...
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Sarah Coyle
Sarah Coyle is the author of The Biggest Story, illustrated by Dan Taylor, and Once You're asleep, illustrated by Carolina R...
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Lisa Williamson
Lisa Williamson grew up in Nottingham, studied drama and worked as an actor on stage and TV. Her first nove...
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Ann Sei Lin
Ann Sei Lin is a writer, librarian, and book nerd with a love for all things fantasy. Though London is now her home, she spe...
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Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino
Yaba Badoe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. Yaba was born in Ghana but now lives in Lo...
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Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poe...
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism.
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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...
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Katya Balen
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...
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Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny,...
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Derek Keilty
Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They h...
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Ben Davis
Ben Davis is an award-winning children's author whose books include <a href="/books/the-private-blog-of-joe...
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Helen Cooper
Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup...
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Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs
Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...
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Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin
Craig Barr-Green writes picture books, non-fiction titles and theatre productions for children. He lectures...
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Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...
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Hiba Noor Khan & Salini Perera
Hiba Noor Khan is a double-Masters holder who has worked in refugee advocacy for The Children's Society, as...
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Matt Brown
Matt Brown is an author and broadcaster based in the UK. His books for children including FCBG Children's B...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...
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Sarah Todd Taylor
Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble, A Spoonful of Spyin...
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Stephanie Taylor is a British-born author of Jamaican heritage. Married to Michael, she has two amazing gro...
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Annabelle Sami
Annabelle Sami is a writer and performer. She grew up next to the sea on the sout...
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Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Who Let the Words Out is his latest collection. Jos...
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Helen Peters
Helen Peters revisits the past in her new book, Friends and Traitors, set in Britain during WWII. Helen grew up on an old-fa...
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AM Howell
A.M. Howell has always been inspired by the stories around her, and how imagination can unlock the secrets of the past. Her...
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Sam Copeland
Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a shock to him. He is f...
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Sufiya Ahmed
Sufiya Ahmed worked in advertising and in the House of Commons before becoming a full-time author. In 2010 she set up the BI...
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Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton
Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...
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Nishani Reed lives on a steep hill, which means that her garden is taller than her house! She spends a lot...
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Kate Pankhurst
Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...
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Tania Unsworth
Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...
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Paige Braddock
Comic creator Paige Braddock introduces her new children's graphic novel, Peanut, Butter and Crackers. Paige is the Chief Cr...
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Hiba Noor Khan
Hiba Noor Khan is a writer and activist based in the north of England. Her academ...
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Jennie Cashman Wilson
Becoming Brave is Jennie Cashman-Wilson's first children's book. Her background is in arts fundraising and...
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Hayley Webster
Hayley Webster writes stories about how people try to make sense of the world around them, when it so often doesn't make sen...
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Rhiannon Findlay
Rhiannon Findlay is a rising star in the world of children's picture books, whose talent for rhyme and imaginative story-tel...
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Freja Nicole Woolf
Freja Nicole Woolf wrote her debut Never Trust a Gemini at just 24 years - a joyful, romantic alternative to the issue-led L...
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Becky Albertalli
Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of...
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Andrew Jennings
Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja, and now Spelling Ninja. An...
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James Burks
Animator and graphic novel creator James Burks introduces his action-packed series, Agent 9. James is himself a master of di...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is the million-copy bestselling author of five children's novels and has won the Costa Ch...
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Olivia Tuffin
Olivia Tuffin lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband Clive, two children, and an assortment of ponies, do...
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Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley
Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, fea...
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Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a...
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Sarah Hagger-Holt
Sarah Hagger-Holt is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author. Her debut novel for childre...
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Steven Lenton
Steven Lenton, creator of the Genie and Teeny series for young readers, works from his studio in B...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...
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David Melling
David grew up in London with various siblings and a selection of animals. It took him a while to decide what he wanted to do...
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Andy Shepherd
Andy Shepherd is a bestselling author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series, and picture books. She lives near Cambridge with h...
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Katya Balen: The Thames and Tide Club
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...
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Patrice Lawrence
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces her first picture book, Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush.
Pat...
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Laura Mucha & Ed Smith
Laura and Ed are fascinated by the things we humans grow, cook and eat. They also share and enjoy many meal...
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Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate
Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate's new picture book series, My Small World, encourag...
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Simon Fox
Running out of Time is Simon Fox's first novel after 20 years trapped in the dungeon of accountancy. He is determined to ne...
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Sophie Cameron
Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...
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Sara Barnard
Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media. Sa...
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M.A. Bennett (The Butterfly Club series)
M.A. Bennett, bestselling author of STAGS, introduces her time-travel adventure series, The Butterfly Club, for middle grade...
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Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...
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Mel Darbon
Mel spent a large part of her childhood inventing stories to keep her autistic brother happy on car journeys. Having worked...
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Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein was born in New York and grew up in England, Jamaica and Pennsylvania. She holds American and British citizen...
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Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...
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Francesca Gibbons
Francesca Gibbons has been telling tall tales for as long as she can remember. She had the idea for The Sha...
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Roland Chambers
Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and...
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Deborah Chancellor
Deborah Chancellor has written over a hundred books for children, from toddlers to teenagers. She has tackled a broad range...
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Sally Anne Garland
Sally Anne Garland grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, aged four,...
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Andy Sagar
Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for...
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Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo
Clare Helen Welsh is a primary school teacher and children's author who lives in South West England with he...
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John Kane
When John Kane was younger, he liked to make up stories for his little sister. Jimmy and Bear, who appeared in them, are sti...
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Rachel Greener
Rachel Greener is a children's books editor from London who has written and edited fiction, non-fiction and...
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Skye Melki-Wegner
Skye Melki-Wegner is a YA and children's fantasy author and dinosaur lover. Over the years, she has worked everywhere from a...
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Kiyash Monsef
Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...
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Alexandra Beever
DC Alexandra Beever has been a detective with Thames Valley Police for 15 years. Following a science degree...
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MG Leonard
MG Leonard's Twitch series takes us into the world of birds and bird watching. She is also the author of be...
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Cath Howe
Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...
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Nizrana Farook
The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...
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Misa Sugiura
Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...
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Rachel Morrisroe
Rachel Morrisroe is a new voice in the world of rhyming picture books. She is working with leading pi...
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Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...
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Cath Howe - Call the Puffins
Cath Howe is well known for exploring the everyday lives of children and her new series for younger children, Call the Puffi...
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Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024. He grew up i...
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David Owen
Having worked as a freelance games journalist and taught on a BA Creative Writing course for three years, David Owen's debut...
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Philip Reeve has been writing stories since he was five years old but Mortal Engines was the first to be pu...
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Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding is an innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, who has built up a large and dedicat...
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Alice M Ross
Alice M Ross has spent most of her career as a journalist at the Financial Times, where she was most recently Deputy News Ed...
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Ruth Lauren
Ruth Lauren has been a teacher and worked in lots of different offices, but she likes writing best, as well as walking in th...
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Rachel Burge
YA author Rachel Burge's new novel, Waking the Witch, follows her earlier YA books The Twisted Tre...
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Iszi Lawrence
Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...
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Gill Lewis
After realising her childhood dream of becoming a vet, Gill worked in the UK and overseas, everywhere from Africa to the Arc...
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Jarvis
Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories is author and illustrator Jarvis's first chapter book. His picture books include...
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Alasdair Beckett-King
Comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King's first book for children is the hilarious murder-mystery Montgom...
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Clare Weze
Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...
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Ross Welford
Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows su...
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Jesse Q Sutanto
Jesse writes books for children and adults, and her first YA romcom, Well, That Was Unexpected, is now available.
Jes...
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Colm Field
Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happi...
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Brian Conaghan
Brian Conaghan lives and works in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He was a teacher for many years and taught in Scotland, I...
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Sinéad O'Hart
Sinéad O'Hart was raised in a small house full of books in the south-east of Ireland. She has a degree in Medieval English a...
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Pamela Butchart
As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and w...
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Leah Mohammed
Leah Mohammed's debut book for younger readers follows Luma who discovers a young dragon in her garden. </p...
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Malcolm Duffy
Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...
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Catherine Jacob
The adventures in Catherine Jacob's new series, Puppy Club, were inspired by her family's new puppy.
Catherine is a w...
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Fleur Hitchcock
Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Snowfall, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur b...
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Sarah Ann Juckes
Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people. The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by...
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Kirsty Applebaum
Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess...
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Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick was a full time author who died unexpectedly in November 2022. He was 54. He grew up in Kent and had been l...
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Jason Rohan
Jason Rohan's new book S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied (Nosy Crow Books) is the first in an action-packed, ga...
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Michelle Paver
Wolfbane, the ninth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, brings to a close the internationally bestselling ser...
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Isabel Thomas
Isabel Thomas is a science writer and the author of a galaxy of books for young audiences, including Moth:...
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JP Rose
Author JP Rose's first YA novel, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker, is a gripping psychological horror story. JP Rose was born i...
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Darren Charlton
Darren Charlton's lifetime obsessions with the National Parks of America, horror, film music and 80s kids movies have all wo...
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Finbar Hawkins
Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...
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Matt Goodfellow
Matt Goodfellow is from Manchester. He spends his time writing and touring the UK and beyond - visiting schools, libraries a...
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Chris Vick
In between writing and teaching, Chris Vick works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity which has helped inspire The...
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Nicola Morgan
Nicola Morgan, aka The Teenage Brain Woman, is an award-winning author and speaker on many areas of well-being and learning....
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Katharine and Elizabeth Corr
Katharine and Elizabeth Corr revisit the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in their new Daughter of Darkne...
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A.F. Harrold
A.F. Harrold is an English poet and children's author, whose books include The Worlds We Leave Behind, The Song from Somewhe...
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Jo Simmons
Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...
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Jessica Scott-Whyte
The Asparagus Bunch is Jessica Scott-Whyte's debut novel. Jessica was born and raised in Dublin. She studied French and His...
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Elys Dolan
Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from E...
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Mariajo Ilustrajo
Flooded is Mariajo Ilustrajo's first picture book, about a city of animals that must work together to solve the problem of f...
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Sue Divin
Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a...
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the e...
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William Hussey
William Hussey's The Outrage, set in a future England that has become a fascist state, is published this mo...
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Pippa Curnick
Pippa Curnick has always written her own stories and loves illustrating, so it's no surprise that she has now written and il...
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Jessie James & Tamara Anegon
Tamara Anegon attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Following this, she studied for a masters d...
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William Goldsmith
William Goldsmith is a British writer and illustrator. Published by Jonathan Cape, his gra...
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Tom Nicoll
Tom Nicoll has been writing since school, where he enjoyed penning essays that were as silly as possible. Tom lives near Edi...
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Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being A Witch 
Nightshade Revenge (Alex Rider) 
The Rescue of Ravenwood 
Rebel Skies 
When the Sky Falls 
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe: The multi-award-winning international bestseller 
Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth 
When the Stars Come Out: Exploring the Magic and Mysteries of the Night-Time 
The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish 
The Panda's Child 
The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot 3) 
The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Spooky Secret 
Imperfectly Perfect 
Be You! 
The Bear Behind 
Geoffrey Gets the Jitters 
Rhinos Don't Cry 
What Are You Feeling?: A picture book of your emotions 
Operation Nativity 
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen 
Juniper's Christmas 
Adventures of a Christmas Elf: The brand new festive blockbuster 
Tiny's Brave Rescue 
The Taming of the Cat 