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Friday, April 25, 2025

The Dark That Hides Us is the follow-up to Andy Darcy Theo's bestselling romantacy, The Light That Blinds Us, and he tells us what inspired the books in this short introduction to the series.

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Monday, April 21, 2025

Following on from his award-winning book The Final Year, about Nate's last year at primary school, Matt Goodfellow reads from his new novel about Nate, The First Year. 

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Friday, February 7, 2025

Have questions about dealing with toxic friends, or how to tell your parents about a problem you have, or things being said on socials?  Anu Adebogun's new guide for young people, It's a Brave Young Wo...

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Find out how Frank Cadaver's love of Christmas led him to write a horror story about a Christmas elf - You'd Better Watch Out.

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Monday, September 4, 2023

Sweet Skies is an inspiring story about friendship, loss and survival in a ruined city. Author Robin Scott-Elliot tells ReadingZone how his love of history, his family's links with Berlin, and a story about a kindly American pilot, helped inspire him to write it. 

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Friday, April 21, 2023

Discover how the legend of a magical sword helped inspire Misa Sugiura's Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind (Puffin).  In this fast-paced fantasy adventure, Momo discovers that her mother is a Shinto goddess and embarks on a quest to find a legendary sword.

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

In Kieran Larwood's new environmental fantasy, The Treekeepers, you'll meet shape-shifters, young people with incredible powers over nature, and a ghost or two.

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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Look out for zombies (naturally), hell hounds and the occasional talking pet in this fast-paced and wit-sharp story about teenagers who open the gates of hell.... We asked author Bryony Pearce to tell us more!

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