Authors Schools & Libraries
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Raucous rhymes and guaranteed giggles: Em Lynas's The Bear and the Hare and the Fair
Em Lynas and Matt Hunt's rhyming picture books, including The Bear and the Hare and the Fair, can help develop children's awareness of sounds and spellings - and their love of stories. Em Lynas loves to write funny books, and stories about magic, dragon...
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Kenechi Udogu
Kenechi Udogu introduces her eco science-fiction adventure, Augmented, set in a near-future, climate-challenged London. Kenechi was born in Nigerian but now works as an architect and writer in London. Her work centres on culturally diverse characters in sci-fi, fantasy...
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Tasneem Abdur-Rashid explores identity and belonging in Odd Girl Out
Tasneem Abdur-Rashid is a British Bengali writer born and raised in London. Odd Girl Out is her YA debut, a story about identity, faith and finding your place in your world. A mother of two, Tasneem has worked across media, PR and communicatio...
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Marisa Linton's award-winning YA debut, The Binding Spell
Find out what inspired Marisa Linton's supernatural YA debut, The Binding Spell, winner of The Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition. Before she became a YA author, Marisa Linton wrote about history and taught history at Kingston University, specialising...
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Alexia Casale's YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero
Alexia Casale introduces her new YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero, a story about following your dreams. British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia Casale is an author, writing consultant and teacher living in Buckinghamshire. She has a PhD and teaching qualific...
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Sara Barnard
Sara Barnard's This Song is About Us is a powerful YA novel exploring first love, fame and social media. After Sara graduated, she became a content writer at an international online healthcare company in London - but what she had always wanted do was to be a writer. Sar...
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Rachel Morrisroe
Discover a hidden world of premonitions, magical creatures and deadly dangers in Felix and the Future Agency by Rachel Morrisroe! Rachel Morrisroe is the bestselling author of the How to Grow Magic picture books, illustrated by Steven Lenton, and the multi-award...
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Exploring world-building with Jacob North, author of Ice Apprentices
Discover a wintery world of ice, danger and magic in Ice Apprentices, Jacob North's debut novel. Jacob North was born in South England and grew up with a longing for magical adventures that centred LGBT+ characters. Struggling to find them on bookshop shelves, he decide...
