Authors Young Adult
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Efua Traoré
Efua Traoré's latest novel Sister Spirit draws on her years growing up in Nigeria, as well as the mythology and supernatural beliefs of the region. Efua grew up in a small town in Nigeria and, for as long as she can remember, her head was filled with little stories but...
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Shade Lapite
Shade Lapite is British-Nigerian and has drawn on her heritage to create the world of Goddess Crown. She spent a significant slice of her childhood nestled in the library, inhaling books by Diana Wynne Jones, Tamora Pierce, Lois Duncan and Mildred D Taylor. Her love for the arts led her to a d...
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Sarah Crossan
Sarah Crossan introduces her powerful new verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury YA). Sarah has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in East Sussex. She studied philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher, and the...
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Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick and then travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan, before undertaking a masters in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa. It was here that she wrot...
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Becky Albertalli
Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat. She is also the co-author of What If It’s Us with Adam Silvera. A former clinical psychologist who specialised in working with childr...
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the environment. It is a book that she says has been "many years in the making". Sita was born in Derby, to an Indian doctor from Kolkata and an English nurse from the...
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Sue Divin
Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies and a career in Community Relations, her writing often touches on diversity and reconciliation. Her short stories, flash fiction and...
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Tracy Darnton
Tracy Darnton's new tense YA page-turner, Ready or Not, follows a group of teenagers meeting for the first time since one of the group went missing last summer. Tracy studied law at Camridge and worked as a solicitor and a law lecturer. In 2016 she dec...
