Authors Young Adult

  • Tasneem Abdur-Rashid explores identity and belonging in Odd Girl Out

    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...

  • Kenechi Udogu

    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...

  • Marisa Linton's award-winning YA debut, The Binding Spell

    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...

  • Sara Barnard

    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...

  • Alexia Casale's YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero

    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...

  • Ravena Guron introduces her new YA thriller, Mondays Are Murder

    Ravena Guron introduces her new YA thriller, Mondays Are Murder

    Ravena Guron is the bestselling author of Young Adult thrillers: This Book Kills, Catch Your Death and her latest novel, Mondays Are Murder.</...

  • KL Walther's Ferris Bueller-inspired novel, While We're Young

    KL Walther's Ferris Bueller-inspired novel, While We're Young

    Find out how the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off helped inspire KL Walther's YA novel, While We're Young, about a group of teenagers who take a day off school. KL Walther was born and raised in the rolling hills of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by family, dogs, a...

  • Trang Thanh Tran explores identity and transformation in They Bloom at Night

    Trang Thanh Tran explores identity and transformation in They Bloom at Night

    Trang Thanh Tran is the author of She Is a Haunting, a William C. Morris Debut Award finalist and an instant New York Times bestseller. They write speculative stories with big emotions about food, belonging and the Vietnamese diaspora.</...