News - 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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