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Online book events - 27th May
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Authors including Sharon Gosling, Tom Huddleston and David Owen - whose book launches have taken place during the global pandemic - have banded together to create a day of online events on 27th May including competitions, readings and live interviews.
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Lockwood and Co series coming to Netflix
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Lockwood fans and those who love their adventures a little spooky...Netflix has commissioned an action adventure series based on the Lockwood novels by Jonathan Stroud.
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Fact-checking real-life disasters
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
In this blog author Susan Martineau tells us how she set about fact-checking the information she wanted to use in her new book, Real-Life Disasters (b small publishing), including the catastrophic effects of an earlier pandemic, the Black Death.
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Big Dreams writing competition & festival
Monday, May 18, 2020
Puffin is to launch a Big Dreamers Writing Competition for children aged 6-18 years in the run-up to its online Festival of Big Dreams (8th - 14th June), part of its 80th birthday celebrations.
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Is this class worse than yours?
Friday, May 15, 2020
Look out for biscuit battles, killer dogs and escaping rats in THE WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD, the start of a hilarious new series by JOANNA NADIN, illustrated by RIKIN PAREKH.
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Alex Rider Prime television series
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Teenage spy Alex Rider is coming to Amazon Prime with a new television series this June. An eight episode series, based on the second Alex Rider novel, Point Blanc, will be available on Amazon Prime from Thursday 4th June.
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'Draw with Rob' world record attempt
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Author and illustrator Rob Biddulph, whose Draw with Rob videos have amassed a huge online following, will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the World's Biggest Art Lesson on 21 May - and you're all invited to join in!
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Writing competition from Nicola Morgan
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Author Nicola Morgan is running an 'anti-viral' creative writing and poster competition for those aged 11-18 years, with free visits from the author and books as prizes. Closing date is 31 May.
