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Angie Thomas's new Nic Blake and the Remarkables adventure!
Authors Q&As
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Bestselling author Angie Thomas introduces her fantasy adventure, Nic Blake and the Remarkables, and reads from the latest book, The Book of Anansi, and explains how myths, stories and legends helped inspire her own stories about Nic Blake.
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Odd Girl Out, a novel about finding your place in your world
Authors Q&As
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Tasneem Abdur-Rashid tells us what inspired her to write her contemporary YA debut, Odd Girl Out, and how her niece's experiences of moving to the UK helped inspire her to write it.
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Dying to save a life
Authors Q&As
Thursday, July 24, 2025
When her sister Asha dies, Calico agrees to take part in an experiment that will save her. But first, Calico will have to die... Author Kathryn Clark tells ReadingZone about her new YA novel, Things I Learned While I Was Dead.
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Kenneth Oppel reads from his new YA, Best of All Worlds
Authors Q&As
Friday, June 13, 2025
Kenneth Oppel reads from his new YA novel, Best of All Worlds, a thrilling speculative novel about clashing politics, first love and human survival set within the imprisonment of a dome against an invisible enemy.
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Author Judith Eagle in the spotlight!
Authors Q&As
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Step back in time with The Great Theatre Rescue (Faber Children's Books) Expect thrills, spills and bags of entertainment in Judith Eagle's new historical fiction adventure, set in a theatre in 1930's London, <a href="/books/the-grea...
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A Wintertide murder
Authors Q&As
Thursday, October 10, 2024
With Christmas lights twinkling and last-minute shopping for gifts, no-one expects a body to be washed up along the shoreline... Is this a murder? And how is it connected to the story of ancient treasure in the neighbourhood?
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A city under siege
Authors Q&As
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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Writing about the 'dark side'
Authors Q&As
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!
