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Lisa Heathfield
Exploring sibling bonds, first love and the broken care system, Lisa Heathfield's This Boy I Hardly Know is a powerful coming-of-age novel for all readers. Lisa's earlier YA novels have all won or been shortlisted for awards, including the Waterstones Children's Book Pr...
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Sue Divin
Runaway Road, Sue Devin's new YA novel, follows siblings Ezra and Evie as flee across the Irish border, to escape justice. ReadingZone caught up with the author to find out more. Sue Divin from Armagh in the North of Ireland has a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies a...
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Radiya Hafiza moves into YA romantacy with The Silver Kingdom
The Silver Kingdom is Radiya Hafiza's first move into young adult fantasy, exploring empires, history, and forbidden love. ReadingZone caught up with the author to find out more. Radiya studied English Language and Literature at King’s College London and worked in publi...
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Exploring our digital footprints in Seán Farrelly's Tom Burne Has Left the Chat
Debut author Seán Farrelly joins ReadingZone to explore the clues that our digital lives leave about us through his novel, Tom Burne Has Left the Chat. Seán Farrelly has had four plays produced and two short stories published in the Irish Times as par...
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Christopher Galvin introduces his sweeping adventure, The Thing About Giants
ReadingZone caught up with debut author Christopher Galvin to find out about his exciting and powerful children's novel, The Thing About Giants. Christopher Galvin is an Irish author based in Dublin. With a passion for film and TV, he studied scriptwriting, acting and d...
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Chris Naylor-Ballesteros introduces The Teacup, his heartfelt companion to The Suitcase
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's picture book The Suitcase, about kindness to strangers, caught hearts and minds around the world. Now he returns to the same group of friends, and a new stranger, in his picture book, The Teacup. Chris is originally from Bradford and he studie...
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Alex Latimer
Award-winning writer and illustrator Alex Latimer introduces Marigold is a Chicken, a hilarious picture book about being content to be oneself, and a companion title to Godfrey is a Frog. Alex is based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has written and illustrated dozens of...
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Meet the O'Hare family in Leaving the House, Sally Nicholls's new picture book series about family life
Author Sally Nicholls tells ReadingZone how her young family helped inspire her new picture books series about the O'Hare family, in Leaving the House. Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and a did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick before travelli...
