Latest Book Reviews

  • Listen to the Pets

    Listen to the Pets - part of the 'Listen to the…' series - is a sound book which consists of the sounds of 5 common animals. It is not of...

  • Bhorta Bhorta Baby

    We enjoyed this book because it reminded us of preparing food and eating in Bangladesh and also of sharing food at home. We liked the little child because...

  • Bhorta Bhorta Baby

    The children in Nursery loved this book about cooking because the baby was helping to prepare and cook the food. The pictures in Bhorta Bhorta Bab...

  • 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...

  • I'm Feeling (a Little Bit) Shy

    We have all felt shy on occasions in our lives. In this beautifully written story, I'm Feeling (a Little Bit) Shy, the little girl someti...

  • Boats!: And Other Things That Float

    Perfect for introducing young readers to the world of boats, Boats! (and other things that float) is an engaging and informative book. Ea...

  • The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever!

    The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever! is a fun, interactive, silly bedtime book with an original concept. The illustrations are really lovely...

  • Spread Your Wings

    Spread Your Wings is a beautiful story about a cockatoo that provides a loving and stable home for its young bird. Through reassurance, h...

  • This is NOT a Polar Bear!

    We LOVE this book! The word 'not' immediately tells you this is going to involve audience participation and lots of expressive storytelling! It's NOT a po...

  • D is for Dog

    What is not to love about this lovely book? D is for Dog uses dog antics to tell the alphabet in a rhyming and humorous way. From A is fo...

  • Michael Rosen's Sticky McStickstick: The Friend Who Helped Me Walk Again

    We love it! Michael Rosen's Sticky McStickstick is amazing, the children will love it!

  • A Way to the Stars

    A Way to the Stars is the latest picture book by David Almond. Maybe most famous for the excellent Skellig,...

  • Zoom

    Zoom is the first title in a new quartet from Sam Usher featuring the much-loved and relatable duo of Boy and Grandad. In this release, t...

  • Let's Play: Children's Games From Around The World

    The importance of play, both free and imaginative and guided, cannot be underestimated - and yet, it seems to be something on the decline. Develop...

  • Bibi and the Box of Fairy Tales

    Who hasn't made a wish that has failed to come true? Most of us can name at least one! This is exactly how Bibi is feeling. None of Bibi's wishes have eve...

  • Santarella

    What a delightful tale! The book begins as all Cinderella stories do, with Cinderella being left with all the housework while her sisters swan off to a ba...

  • Casander Darkbloom and the Threads of Power

    The opening chapter of Casander Darkbloom and the Threads of Power grabbed me in such a way that I read the first half of the book in one...

  • The Firefly's Light: The Secret Inventors of Our Natural World

    The Firefly's Light is an absolutely beautiful book - from its vibrant, glittering cover to the wealth of fascinating and stunningly illu...

  • On the Tip of a Wave: How Ai Weiwei's Art Is Changing the Tide

    The subject of this beautifully crafted book is artist Ai Weiwei and his powerful, thought-provoking and moving art pieces and art installations, and thei...

  • Monster Support Group: The Mummy's Curse

    Monster Support Group: The Mummy's Curse is the second book in this really super series, Monster Support Group. It would...

  • The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot 3)

    For those of you, like me, who have been waiting with anticipation for the next adventure of Roz, Brightbill, ChitChat and the other animals of the island...

  • Sunshine Simpson Cooks Up a Storm

    Sunshine Simpson is back again, it’s a new year and a scary year as she and her friends plan for their transition to secondary school, away from the safet...

  • Code Name Kingfisher

    Code Name Kingfisher is a powerful tale with, sadly, much relevance to the present day. In 1940s Holland, there were tho...

  • Finding Wonder: An unforgettable adventure from the author of The One Dollar Horse

    Finding Wonder is a beautifully written, truly gripping mystery story which draws on Lauren St John's love of horses. The front cover and...

  • Casander Darkbloom and the Threads of Power

    What a delight the first book in this mesmerizing, magical new fantasy series is! In Casander Darkbloom and the Threads of Power, the rea...

  • Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans

    Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans is a fantastic, vivid and energetic fantasy quest with its roots and landscape planted in Nigerian...

  • Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth

    Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan to Rewild Every City on Earth is a graphic book-style nonfiction text. Filled with drawings and tiny writing, this is a book...

  • Juniper's Christmas

    Eoin Colfer's new book Juniper's Christmas is a heartwarming modern twist on a story about saving Santa Claus. This story brings attentio...

  • Live Like A Goddess: Life Lessons from Legends and Lore

    Live like a Goddess contains short stories from different cultures around the world, celebrating tales and myths of daring and brave goddesses.</s...

  • Nightshade Revenge  (Alex Rider)

    "The simple truth is that Alex Rider has done you nothing but harm. It's time you got him out of your life." Alex rider is back for another mission that w...

  • Bad Magic (Skulduggery Pleasant)

    Skulduggery Pleasant is back in this new adventure of mystery, murder, mayhem and a little magic - all in graphic novel format for the first time. From th...

  • Girl (In Real Life)

    Girl (In Real Life) life was an absolutely phenomenal read for me and I found the storyline and plot really exciting. In fact, I got so h...

  • The Love Report

    Grace and Lola are best friends. They want to try to unravel the mystery of how teenagers fall in love and what that looks like, so they decide to write t...

  • Sweet Skies

    Sweet Skies is a very human tale; an evocative, edge-of-your-seat, gritty adventure story, chock-full of innocence and courage, s...

  • You Better Watch Out

    This book had me addicted. You Better Watch Out is about a girl who gets given random gifts on the count-down to Christmas form an assume...

  • Sisters of Sword and Shadow

    Laura Bates has taken our Reading Ambassadors on a captivating journey through a world of courage, strength, and the enduring bonds of sisterhood in her l...

  • The Undying of Obedience Wellrest

    15-year-old Ned works as a gravedigger alongside his grandfather, Pa, who is sexton of the parish. When graves are found to have been disturbed, Ned and P...

  • What the River Knows: the explosive, page-turning historical romantasy

    Author Isabel Ibanez must be an alchemist herself as this book will keep you spellbound and enchanted until the 'I didn't see that coming' cliff hanger of...

  • Sisters of Sword and Shadow

    Cass leads a sheltered life living on her family farm, working hard with her older sister Mary but also able to roam free and enjoy the countryside. Soon...

  • The Night Hunt

    The Night Hunt is the first book that I have read by this author and now I can't wait to read her others! The Night Hunt is a standalone...

ReadingZone Authors of the Month

  • David Almond   (Picture Books)

    David Almond (Picture Books)

    David Almond spent his childhood in Newcastle playing football, camping with his friends and singing as an...

  • Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to pr...

  • Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage was born and raised in Stevenage. She has a First Class BA Honours in...

  • 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...

  • Em Lynas

    Em Lynas

    Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em...

  • Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...

  • Em Lynas: The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat

    Em Lynas: The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Eoin Colfer

    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...

  • PA Staff

    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...

  • Peter Brown

    Peter Brown

    Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

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

  • Dashe Roberts

    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...

  • Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

    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...

  • Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poe...

  • 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.  <...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...

  • Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny,...

  • Derek Keilty

    Derek Keilty

    Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They h...

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis

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

  • Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...

  • PA Staff

    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...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

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

  • Dashe Roberts

    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...

  • Lisa Williamson

    Lisa Williamson

    Lisa Williamson grew up in Nottingham, studied drama and worked as an actor on stage and TV. Her first nove...

  • 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...

  • Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

    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...

  • 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.  <...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Michelle Paver

    Michelle Paver

    Wolfbane, the ninth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, brings to a close the internationally bestselling ser...

  • Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...

  • Matt Goodfellow

    Matt Goodfellow

    Matt Goodfellow is from Manchester. He spends his time writing and touring the UK and beyond - visiting schools, libraries a...

  • Chris Vick

    Chris Vick

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

  • 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....

  • A.F. Harrold

    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...

  • Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...

  • 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...

  • Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...

  • 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 t...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media. Sa...

  • 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...

  • Rachel Burge

    Rachel Burge

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

  • Jesse Q Sutanto

    Jesse Q Sutanto

    Jesse writes books for children and adults, and her first YA romcom, Well, That Was Unexpected, is now available. Jes...

  • Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...

  • JP Rose

    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...

  • Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton's lifetime obsessions with the National Parks of America, horror, film music and 80s kids movies have all wo...

  • Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...

  • 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

    Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

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

  • Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...

  • 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

    Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a...

  • Sita Brahmachari

    Sita Brahmachari

    Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the e...

  • PA Staff

    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...

  • 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...

  • Skye McKenna

    Skye McKenna

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

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

  • 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...

  • Alasdair Beckett-King

    Alasdair Beckett-King

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • David Almond   (Picture Books)

    David Almond (Picture Books)

    David Almond spent his childhood in Newcastle playing football, camping with his friends and singing as an...

  • Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to pr...

  • Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage was born and raised in Stevenage. She has a First Class BA Honours in...

  • Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...

  • Eoin Colfer

    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...

  • 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 t...

  • PA Staff

    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...

  • Peter Brown

    Peter Brown

    Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

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

  • Dashe Roberts

    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...

  • 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...

  • Lisa Williamson

    Lisa Williamson

    Lisa Williamson grew up in Nottingham, studied drama and worked as an actor on stage and TV. Her first nove...

  • 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...

  • Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

    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...

  • Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poe...

  • 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.  <...

  • Em Lynas

    Em Lynas

    Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em...

  • Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...

  • Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny,...

  • Derek Keilty

    Derek Keilty

    Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They h...

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis

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

  • Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland

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

  • 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

    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...

  • Jennie Cashman Wilson

    Jennie Cashman Wilson

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sarah Hagger-Holt

    Sarah Hagger-Holt

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

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Patrice Lawrence

    Patrice Lawrence

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

  • 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...

  • Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    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

    Sophie Cameron

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

  • Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media. Sa...

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar

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

  • 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...

  • Rachel Greener

    Rachel Greener

    Rachel Greener is a children's books editor from London who has written and edited fiction, non-fiction and...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Rachel Burge

    Rachel Burge

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

  • 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...

  • Jesse Q Sutanto

    Jesse Q Sutanto

    Jesse writes books for children and adults, and her first YA romcom, Well, That Was Unexpected, is now available. Jes...

  • 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...

  • Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...

  • 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...

  • Marcus Sedgwick

    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...

  • 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...

  • Michelle Paver

    Michelle Paver

    Wolfbane, the ninth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, brings to a close the internationally bestselling ser...

  • Isabel Thomas

    Isabel Thomas

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

  • JP Rose

    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...

  • Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton's lifetime obsessions with the National Parks of America, horror, film music and 80s kids movies have all wo...

  • Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...

  • Matt Goodfellow

    Matt Goodfellow

    Matt Goodfellow is from Manchester. He spends his time writing and touring the UK and beyond - visiting schools, libraries a...

  • Chris Vick

    Chris Vick

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

  • 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....

  • Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

    Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

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

  • A.F. Harrold

    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...

  • Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sue Divin

    Sue Divin

    Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a...

  • Sita Brahmachari

    Sita Brahmachari

    Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the e...

  • William Hussey

    William Hussey

    William Hussey's The Outrage, set in a future England that has become a fascist state, is published this mo...

  • Pippa Curnick

    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...

  • Jessie James & Tamara Anegon

    Jessie James & Tamara Anegon

    Tamara Anegon attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Following this, she studied for a masters d...

  • William Goldsmith

    William Goldsmith

    William Goldsmith is a British writer and illustrator. Published by Jonathan Cape, his gra...

  • Tom Nicoll

    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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  • Picture Book

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2023 Winners

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2023 Winners

    How to Make a Picture Book Each spring, ReadingZone challenges those aged four to 18 years to make a picture book for the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition, in partner...

  • Book Trailers

    Make a Book Trailer

    Make a Book Trailer

    Create a Book Trailer Create a book trailer of your favourite book or your latest bookclub read for ReadingZone, and encourage others to read the book!  Or you can use it...

  • Podcasts

    Create your own Podcast

    Create your own Podcast

    Bex, a presenter for Fun Kids, has put together a simple guide for us about creating podcasts and gives us some top tips for starting your own podcast.

  • Videos & Vlogs

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Ever wanted to create your own vlog, but don't know how to get started? In these videos, author and book vlogger Lucy Powrie (lucythereader) gives her tips on getting started, what to inc...

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