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  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer and The Good Thieves. She has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize amongst many...

  • Nazima Pathan

    Nazima Pathan

    Discover Dream Hunters, the debut fantasy novel by Nazima Pathan, set in a richly imagined alternate India. Nazima was born in India and raised in London, moving later to Cambridge where she lives with her husband and two children. She...

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant tells ReadingZone about her new adventure, The Secret of Golden Island.  Her earlier children's adventure stories include Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, which won the Costa Children's Book Award, The Rescue of Ravenwood and The Children of Castle Rock.  As well as writing, N...

  • Helen Peters

    Helen Peters

    Helen Peters revisits her childhood, growing up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud, in her new book, The Great Farm Rescue. Helen spent most of her childhood reading stories and putting on plays in a tumbledown shed that she and her friends turned...

  • Nicola Colton

    Nicola Colton

    Nicola Colton introduces her new series, Bertha and Blink, about a bear inventor and an excitable Robo-bird!  Nicola is an Irish illustrator living in Bristol and is the creator of the popular 'People of Bristol'. Her work has featured in editorials, print and in variou...

  • Marie Basting

    Marie Basting

    Discover an alternate world peopled by Roman gods in Marie Basting's Auntie Medusa and Me, the follow-up to her hilarious My Family and Other Romans. For a long time, Marie had believed a careers advisor that girls like her don't become writers. But then something magical happened and M...

  • MT Khan

    MT Khan

    MT Khan is back to tell us about her new novel, Amir and the Jinn Princess, which returns us to the world of her debut novel, Nura and the Immortal Palace. MT Khan is a SFF writer from Pakistan, now living in Canada. She focuses on stories close to her heart, evoking cu...

  • Gita Ralleigh

    Gita Ralleigh

    Gita Ralleigh introduces The Voyage of Sam Singh, the adventurous follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Destiny of Minou Moonshine.  Gita is a medical doctor who studied for an MA in Creative Writing and has previously published short stories and two poetry books.  She...