Authors Families
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Stewart Foster
Stewart Foster explores friendships and young men's mental health in Pieces of Us, his first YA novel, which draws on his own teenage friendships, challenges and his battle with bulimia. Foster writes books for adults and children, too, and these have won multiple scho...
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Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024. He grew up in a tower block in London and started writing poetry at secondary school. After studying archaeology at university, his jobs ranged from being a gym inst...
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Neal Shusterman introduces his new dystopian thriller, All Better Now
Award-winning author Neal Shusterman joins ReadingZone to discuss his latest YA contemporary thriller, All Better Now. Neal has written more than 30 award-winning books for children, teens and adults, including the acclaimed Arc of a Scythe series (Scythe, Thunderhead a...
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MG Leonard introduces her Time Keys adventures
MG Leonard's new Time Keys series takes us into the world of time-travel and ancient mysteries. She is also the author of bestselling series including The Twitchers, Beetle Boy and <a href="/aut...
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Exploring grief, family and community in Let the Light In
Mother and son team Jenny Downham and Louis Hill introduce their first collaborative novel, Let the Light In. Jenny Downham's first novel, Before I Die, is an international bestseller and was made into the blockbuster film, Now Is Good. She has also wri...
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Holly Webb
Author Holly Webb has just written the 60th book in her best-selling Animal Stories series, The Bold Kitten, and also writes time-slip novels, magical stories and the Museum Kittens series. Holly worked as an editor at Scholastic Children's Books before becoming a full...
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Eric Huang's Guardians of the New Moon series
Eric Huang has always been fascinated by legends and lore and East Asian myths have helped inspire his debut series, Guardians of the New Moon. As a boy, he was determined to find real-life dragons, so he studied palaeontology at university. Reality didn't live up to hi...
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Alice Nuttall introduces her gripping eco-horror novel, The Zombie Project
When Alice Nuttall was little, she was given a giant stack of yellowing scrap paper from the factory where her grandfather worked. She started writing stories on it, and didn't stop even when it eventually ran out. Today, she writes children's stories and webcomics, as well as pet-sitti...
