Latest Book Reviews

  • Jane Foster's Baby's First Stories: 3-6 months: Look and Listen with Baby

    Baby’s First Stories 3-6 months is a follow on from the first one – Baby’s First Stories 0-3 months. The first book is full of simple ill...

  • Jane Foster's Baby's First Stories: 0-3 months: Look and Listen with Baby

    This book is a hardback book for babies aged 0-3 months. Experts believe that babies see in black, white and grey during the first four months of their li...

  • My First ABC

    My First ABC is full of learning opportunities for little ones who are beginning to want to find the words for everyday nouns they encounter.</str...

  • Make Tracks: Building Site

    The Make Tracks: Building Site book with movable counters is a sure winner for any active baby or toddler who has an inquisitive nature a...

  • Let's Go Home, Baby Lion

    A book with movable counters is certainly a first for me and what a great idea it is! Nosy Crow continues to find such innovative and engaging ways of dev...

  • Bizzy Bear: Nursery Time

    Bizzy Bear: Nursery Time certainly is a busy book! My one-year-old and I are still discovering more and more stories to tell within the i...

  • Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf

    Gina Kaminski Saves the Wolf challenges the format of the way that traditional narratives are told. The neurodiverse lead character has a unique way of re...

  • Nibbles: The Bedtime Book

    A book filled with flaps to open and holes to peep through - what's not to love?! Nibbles: The Bedtime Book is another brilliant book fro...

  • The Bear Behind

    It was no ordinary Monday morning for Ivor as he watched the rain outside. Today was his first day at school and the last thing he needed was a huge Bear...

  • The Bear Behind

    The Bear Behind is a fun and comforting picture book for any child who is nervous about starting school, or any other new experiences.</p...

  • A Superhero Mermaid Dragon Adventure (Pick a Story)

    A Superhero Mermaid Dragon Adventure is the third book in a brilliant new series of 'pick your own' picture book adventures. Do you love...

  • Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Train Trouble

    Who can believe that Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have been up to their rhyming antics for 10 years! They have turned away from their days as 'bumbling...

  • Sala, Mountain Warrior

    Sala, Mountain Warrior is a lovely picture book which tells a great story of girl power. Sala loves listening to her grandma's tales of t...

  • Geoffrey Gets the Jitters

    Anyone who already knows Nadia's other books, in particular Barbara Throws a Wobbler, will know what to exp...

  • Clive Penguin

    Clive Penguin is not a happy penguin because in fact he doesn't like the cold! He dreams of being elsewhere, in the sunshine, and dreams...

  • Zoom

    On a sweltering evening, when no-one can sleep, Grandad and his grandson head to the roof to cool down. Gazing up at the stars through the telescope, they...

  • A Bad Day for Bear

    Oh Bear.. How I feel for you! This amusing tale of Bear will absolutely resonate with everyone, young and old. Some days just don’t go the way you want! B...

  • The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Spooky Secret

    This perfectly timed launch brings us the next in the wonderful Tindims series written by a talented mother and daughter duo.  In The Tindims of R...

  • Our Rights!: Stories and Poems About Children's Rights

    This new anthology, Our Rights, explores the principles enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child through poe...

  • A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop: Poems to Have Fun With!

    A Dinosaur at the Bus Stop: Poems to Have Fun With is a lovely little book of engaging poems, ideal for six, seven and eight-year-olds. E...

  • Who Let the Words Out?: Poems by the winner of the Laugh Out Loud Award

    Once again, Joshua Seigal offers a cornucopia of poetic treats in his new collection, Who Let the Words Out?. With poems about cats putti...

  • A First Book of Dinosaurs

    This well written and beautifully illustrated book will definitely be a child’s favourite and be read over and over! A First Book of Dinosaurs</st...

  • Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future: People Power series

    Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future gives a fascinating insight into inventors and their inventions that are having an impact...

  • We Are All Astronauts: Discover what it takes to be a space explorer!

    Another great book from Kate Pankhurst about women doing amazing things! We are all Astronauts! starts with a little girl called Luna who...

  • The Silver Road

    Rose is unhappy at her new secondary school. She is bullied by Emer and her friends and is utterly miserable. Her only friends are the elderly couple who...

  • Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism

    There is so much to this book, Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism: personal experience (the author knows what it's like to be on the r...

  • Digger and Me

    I really liked Digger and Me. It was a book about James's overwhelming life and he feels like nothing's ever the same again. First, his p...

  • The Silver Road

    Rosaleen Darke-Rose is struggling at her new school. Tormented by Emer McGuire and her 'fan club' for being a scholarship pupil, Rose is also still grievi...

  • Gods and Monsters - Mythological Poems

    Combing two of my favourite things-poetry and mythology, Gods and Monsters was always going to be a personal reading paradise, but this f...

  • War of the Wind

    14-year-old Max lives on a remote Scottish island and is seething with anger and frustration. An accident on his father's trawler has left him deaf and is...

  • At the Speed of Lies

    At the Speed of Lies is about a girl called Quinn. Quinn is in a wheelchair and finds not everyone is accepting as others but tries to us...

  • Yours From the Tower

    Yours from the Tower is set in 1896: a time of great hope, social change and scientific excitement. An exciting year too for three best f...

  • Ancient Love Stories

    Ancient Love Stories retells some of the greatest romances in history, showing that love is a familiar theme across time and culture. The...

  • A Taste of Darkness

    A Taste of Darkness is a collection of haunting short stories that any young adult reader who likes a tale of horror will enjoy. The book...

  • Impossible Creatures

    Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a r...

  • Welcome to Camp Killer

    Welcome to Camp Killer is set in the north of England and is about a group of teenagers who start their summer looking to earn money and...

  • Her Radiant Curse: An enchanting fantasy, set in the same world as New York Times bestselling Six Crimson Cranes

    Her Radiant Curse is the prequel story to the wonderful fantasy tale, <a href="/books/six-crimson-cranes-the-magical-and-spellbinding-fan...

  • Getting Away with Murder

    Getting Away with Murder is a gripping page turner. It is set in a high-tech escape room experience in an abandoned bunker. The contestan...

  • Queen of Gods (House of Shadows 2): the unmissable sequel to Daughter of Darkness

    Feisty Deina is no fan of the duplicitous Gods. Nor is she a fan of the war-mongering Aristaeus but, bound by the seeds Thanatos commanded her to swallow...

  • Foxglove: The thrilling gothic fantasy sequel to Belladonna

    Foxglove is the dark, captivating sequel to the Gothic-infused Belladonna...

  • Darkhearts: An enemies-to-lovers gay rockstar romance for fans of Adam Silvera

    Darkhearts - a teen band formed in Seattle by best mates Chance, Eli and David - till he left two years ago. They made it big, David filled himself with r...

  • Queen of Gods (House of Shadows 2): the unmissable sequel to Daughter of Darkness

    Deina has been forced to stay in the Underworld after eating some seeds to save her friends, and must now face her mother, Hades, and find out what the fu...

ReadingZone Authors of the Month

  • Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin

    Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin

    Craig Barr-Green writes picture books, non-fiction titles and theatre productions for children. He lectures...

  • Stephanie Taylor is a British-born author of Jamaican heritage. Married to Michael, she has two amazing gro...

  • Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a shock to him. He is f...

  • Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...

  • Nishani Reed lives on a steep hill, which means that her garden is taller than her house! She spends a lot...

  • Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...

  • Jennie Cashman Wilson

    Jennie Cashman Wilson

    Becoming Brave is Jennie Cashman-Wilson's first children's book. Her background is in arts fundraising and...

  • Rhiannon Findlay

    Rhiannon Findlay

    Rhiannon Findlay is a rising star in the world of children's picture books, whose talent for rhyme and imaginative story-tel...

  • David Melling

    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...

  • Patrice Lawrence

    Patrice Lawrence

    Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces her first picture book, Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush. Pat...

  • Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate's new picture book series, My Small World, encourag...

  • Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...

  • Deborah Chancellor

    Deborah Chancellor

    Deborah Chancellor has written over a hundred books for children, from toddlers to teenagers. She has tackled a broad range...

  • Sally Anne Garland

    Sally Anne Garland

    Sally Anne Garland grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, aged four,...

  • Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo

    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...

  • John Kane

    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...

  • Em Lynas

    Em Lynas

    Em Lynas loves to write funny books and her latest picture book The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is a hi...

  • Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe is a new voice in the world of rhyming picture books. She is working with leading pi...

  • Anna Wilson

    Anna Wilson

    Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...

  • Sarah Coyle

    Sarah Coyle

    Sarah Coyle is the author of The Biggest Story, illustrated by Dan Taylor, and Once You're asleep, illustrated by Carolina R...

  • Mariajo Ilustrajo

    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...

  • Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...

  • Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...

  • Hiba Noor Khan & Salini Perera

    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...

  • Matt Brown

    Matt Brown

    Matt Brown is an author and broadcaster based in the UK. His books for children including FCBG Children's B...

  • Robin Scott-Elliot

    Robin Scott-Elliot

    Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...

  • Sarah Todd Taylor

    Sarah Todd Taylor

    Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble, A Spoonful of Spyin...

  • Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami is a writer and performer. She grew up next to the sea on the sout...

  • Joshua Seigal

    Joshua Seigal

    Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Who Let the Words Out is his latest collection. Jos...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...

  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied

    Yassmin Abdel-Magied

    Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism.  <...

  • Helen Peters

    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...

  • AM Howell

    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...

  • Sufiya Ahmed

    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...

  • Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...

  • Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...

  • Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...

  • Paige Braddock

    Paige Braddock

    Comic creator Paige Braddock introduces her new children's graphic novel, Peanut, Butter and Crackers. Paige is the Chief Cr...

  •  Hiba Noor Khan

    Hiba Noor Khan

    Hiba Noor Khan is a writer and activist based in the north of England. Her academ...

  • Hayley Webster

    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...

  • Andrew Jennings

    Andrew Jennings

    Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja, and now Spelling Ninja. An...

  • James Burks

    James Burks

    Animator and graphic novel creator James Burks introduces his action-packed series, Agent 9. James is himself a master of di...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is the million-copy bestselling author of five children's novels and has won the Costa Ch...

  • Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband Clive, two children, and an assortment of ponies, do...

  • Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

    Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

    Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, fea...

  • Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott

    Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott

    Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a...

  • Steven Lenton

    Steven Lenton

    Steven Lenton, creator of the Genie and Teeny series for young readers, works from his studio in B...

  • Skye McKenna

    Skye McKenna

    Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...

  • Andy Shepherd

    Andy Shepherd

    Andy Shepherd is a bestselling author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series, and picture books. She lives near Cambridge with h...

  • Katya Balen: The Thames and Tide Club

    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...

  • Laura Mucha & Ed Smith

    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...

  • Simon Fox

    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...

  • Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...

  • M.A. Bennett  (The Butterfly Club series)

    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...

  • Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis

    Ben Davis is an award-winning children's author whose books include <a href="/books/the-private-blog-of-joe...

  • Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons has been telling tall tales for as long as she can remember. She had the idea for The Sha...

  • Roland Chambers

    Roland Chambers

    Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and...

  • Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for...

  • Skye Melki-Wegner

    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...

  • Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...

  • Alexandra Beever

    Alexandra Beever

    DC Alexandra Beever has been a detective with Thames Valley Police for 15 years. Following a science degree...

  • MG Leonard

    MG Leonard

    MG Leonard's Twitch series takes us into the world of birds and bird watching. She is also the author of be...

  • Cath Howe

    Cath Howe

    Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...

  • Nizrana Farook

    Nizrana Farook

    The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...

  • Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...

  • Cath Howe - Call the Puffins

    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...

  • Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024.  He grew up i...

  • David Owen

    David Owen

    Having worked as a freelance games journalist and taught on a BA Creative Writing course for three years, David Owen's debut...

  • Philip Reeve has been writing stories since he was five years old but Mortal Engines was the first to be pu...

  • Charles Dowding

    Charles Dowding

    Charles Dowding is an innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, who has built up a large and dedicat...

  • Alice M Ross

    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...

  • Ruth Lauren

    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...

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the pa...

  • Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...

  • Gill Lewis

    Gill Lewis

    After realising her childhood dream of becoming a vet, Gill worked in the UK and overseas, everywhere from Africa to the Arc...

  • Jarvis

    Jarvis

    Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories is author and illustrator Jarvis's first chapter book. His picture books include...

  • Alasdair Beckett-King

    Alasdair Beckett-King

    Comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King's first book for children is the hilarious murder-mystery Montgom...

  • Clare Weze

    Clare Weze

    Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...

  • Ross Welford

    Ross Welford

    Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows su...

  • Colm Field

    Colm Field

    Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happi...

  • Brian Conaghan

    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...

  • Sinéad O'Hart

    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...

  • Pamela Butchart

    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...

  • Leah Mohammed

    Leah Mohammed

    Leah Mohammed's debut book for younger readers follows Luma who discovers a young dragon in her garden. </p...

  • Catherine Jacob

    Catherine Jacob

    The adventures in Catherine Jacob's new series, Puppy Club, were inspired by her family's new puppy. Catherine is a w...

  • Fleur Hitchcock

    Fleur Hitchcock

    Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Snowfall, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur b...

  • Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people.  The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by...

  • Kirsty Applebaum

    Kirsty Applebaum

    Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - bu...

  • Jason Rohan

    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...

  • Isabel Thomas

    Isabel Thomas

    Isabel Thomas is a science writer and the author of a galaxy of books for young audiences, including Moth:...

  • Nicola Morgan

    Nicola Morgan

    Nicola Morgan, aka The Teenage Brain Woman, is an award-winning author and speaker on many areas of well-being and learning....

  • Jessica Scott-Whyte

    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...

  • Elys Dolan

    Elys Dolan

    Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from E...

  • Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...

  • Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...

  • Hiba Noor Khan & Salini Perera

    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...

  • Robin Scott-Elliot

    Robin Scott-Elliot

    Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...

  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied

    Yassmin Abdel-Magied

    Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism.  <...

  • Helen Peters

    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...

  • AM Howell

    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...

  • Ann Sei Lin

    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...

  • Sufiya Ahmed

    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...

  • Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...

  • Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...

  • Hayley Webster

    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...

  • Freja Nicole Woolf

    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...

  • Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband Clive, two children, and an assortment of ponies, do...

  • Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott

    Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott

    Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a...

  • Sarah Hagger-Holt

    Sarah Hagger-Holt

    Sarah Hagger-Holt is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author. Her debut novel for childre...

  • Simon Fox

    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...

  • Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...

  • M.A. Bennett  (The Butterfly Club series)

    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...

  • Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...

  • Mel Darbon

    Mel Darbon

    Mel spent a large part of her childhood inventing stories to keep her autistic brother happy on car journeys. Having worked...

  • Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein was born in New York and grew up in England, Jamaica and Pennsylvania. She holds American and British citizen...

  • Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons has been telling tall tales for as long as she can remember. She had the idea for The Sha...

  • Skye Melki-Wegner

    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...

  • Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...

  • Alexandra Beever

    Alexandra Beever

    DC Alexandra Beever has been a detective with Thames Valley Police for 15 years. Following a science degree...

  • MG Leonard

    MG Leonard

    MG Leonard's Twitch series takes us into the world of birds and bird watching. She is also the author of be...

  • Cath Howe

    Cath Howe

    Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...

  • Nizrana Farook

    Nizrana Farook

    The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...

  • Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...

  • Alice M Ross

    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...

  • Ruth Lauren

    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...

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the pa...

  • Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...

  • Jeremy Dronfield

    Jeremy Dronfield

    Jeremy Dronfield has written many books about the lives and adventures of amazing people from history. Most...

  • Clare Weze

    Clare Weze

    Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...

  • Ross Welford

    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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    Fleur Hitchcock

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    Mel Darbon

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    Elizabeth Wein

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    Malcolm Duffy

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    JP Rose

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  • Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton

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  • Chris Vick

    Chris Vick

    In between writing and teaching, Chris Vick works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity which has helped inspire The...

  • Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

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    Katharine and Elizabeth Corr revisit the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in their new Daughter of Darkne...

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    Catherine Barter's We Played with Fire has won the Young Quill's Award for historical fiction for her novel...

  • Jo Simmons

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  • Tracy Darnton

    Tracy Darnton

    Tracy Darnton's new tense YA page-turner, Ready or Not, follows a group of teenagers meeti...

  • Sue Divin

    Sue Divin

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  • Sita Brahmachari

    Sita Brahmachari

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  • Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

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    Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, fea...

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    Skye McKenna

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  • Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...

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  • Alice M Ross

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  • Colm Field

    Colm Field

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  • Jessica Scott-Whyte

    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...

  • Sally Nicholls

    Sally Nicholls

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  • Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

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    Thomas Taylor

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  • Hiba Noor Khan & Salini Perera

    Hiba Noor Khan & Salini Perera

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  • Matt Brown

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  • Robin Scott-Elliot

    Robin Scott-Elliot

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    Sarah Todd Taylor

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  • Annabelle Sami

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  • Joshua Seigal

    Joshua Seigal

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  • Katherine Rundell

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  • AM Howell

    AM Howell

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  • Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland

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  • Ann Sei Lin

    Ann Sei Lin

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  • Sufiya Ahmed

    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...

  • Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...

  • Nishani Reed lives on a steep hill, which means that her garden is taller than her house! She spends a lot...

  • Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...

  • Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth

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    Judith Eagle

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    Paige Braddock

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  •  Hiba Noor Khan

    Hiba Noor Khan

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    Jennie Cashman Wilson

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  • Hayley Webster

    Hayley Webster

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  • Rhiannon Findlay

    Rhiannon Findlay

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    Freja Nicole Woolf

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  • 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...

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  • Olivia Tuffin

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  • Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

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  • Sarah Hagger-Holt

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    Skye McKenna

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  • David Melling

    David Melling

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  • Andy Shepherd

    Andy Shepherd

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    Patrice Lawrence

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    Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate's new picture book series, My Small World, encourag...

  • Simon Fox

    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...

  • Sophie Cameron

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  • Sara Barnard

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  • M.A. Bennett  (The Butterfly Club series)

    M.A. Bennett (The Butterfly Club series)

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    Ross Montgomery

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    Mel Darbon

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  • Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein

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  • Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis

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  • Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons

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    Roland Chambers

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  • Deborah Chancellor

    Deborah Chancellor

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  • Sally Anne Garland

    Sally Anne Garland

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  • Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar

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    Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo

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  • John Kane

    John Kane

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  • Rachel Greener

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  • Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner

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  • Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef

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  • Alexandra Beever

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    Em Lynas

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    MG Leonard

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  • Nizrana Farook

    Nizrana Farook

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    Misa Sugiura

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  • Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe

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    Anna Wilson

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  • Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho

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    David Owen

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  • Charles Dowding

    Charles Dowding

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  • Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross

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  • Ruth Lauren

    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...

  • Rachel Burge

    Rachel Burge

    YA author Rachel Burge's new novel, Waking the Witch, follows her earlier YA books The Twisted Tre...

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

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  • Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence

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  • Gill Lewis

    Gill Lewis

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  • Clare Weze

    Clare Weze

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    Ross Welford

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    Jesse Q Sutanto

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    Colm Field

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  • Brian Conaghan

    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...

  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart

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  • Pamela Butchart

    Pamela Butchart

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    Leah Mohammed

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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...

  • Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes

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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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    Katya Balen

    Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - bu...

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    Sarah Coyle

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    Jason Rohan

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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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