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Finding happiness in the winter blues: Anna Zoe Quirke's Sad Girl Hours
Authors Q&As
Friday, October 31, 2025
As the winter months set in, we hear from Anna Zoe Quirke about her slow-burn Sapphic romance, Sad Girl Hours, and how she drew on her own experiences to explore seasonal affective disorder through the novel. She also gives a brief reading from Sad Girl Hours.
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Dip into horror with The Blood Texts
Authors Q&As
Friday, October 3, 2025
Uncle Zeedie is weird, but at least he's rich and his house is amazing. That's what George and Lacey tell themselves when they arrive at his isolated mansion in the Welsh woods . . .
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A deliciously dark new adventure by Emma Carroll!
Authors Q&As
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Emma Carroll's brilliant new fantasy adventure, Dracula & Daughters, revisits vampire myths and the Dracula story to create a modern classic.
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Enter a world of dark academia...and murder!
Authors Q&As
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Rachael Davis-Featherstone introduces her atmospheric YA debut, Oxford Blood, set at Oxford University. Just how far will students go to win a place . . .?
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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.
