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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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The Booker Prize launches The Children’s Booker Prize
Book Awards
Friday, October 24, 2025
The charity behind two of the world’s most significant literary prizes has announced a new £50,000 award for children's fiction, supported by the AKO Foundation.
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Winners of the HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards 2025 announced
Monday, October 20, 2025
The winners of The HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards 2025 have been announced. The awards recognise and celebrate teachers and educators who put reading for pleasure at the heart of their practice in creative and innovative ways, to inspire children to read.
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Book Awards
Friday, October 10, 2025
The winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2025, highlighting diverse voices across children's, YA and adult books, were celebrated at an event at Waterstones Piccadilly, hosted by poet Anneliese Amoah. The Diver...
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Inclusive Books for Children 2025 report highlights 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation
Thursday, October 9, 2025
A new report from Inclusive Books for Children highlights a 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation in children's books. The 2025 Excluded Voices report found that only 5.9% of books published in the UK in the last three years featured marginalised main characters, and only half...
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Books to celebrate Black History Month - and beyond!
Reading Resources
Thursday, October 9, 2025
With a new report recording a 'catastrophic decline' in Black representation in children's books and very low Asian representation, ReadingZone is sharing some recent titles by Black and Asian authors and illustrators, highlighted by our teacher and librarian reviewers as 'must-haves'...
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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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Poetry speaking competition Poetry by Heart 2026 opens for entries
Get Creative
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Poetry By Heart, a national poetry speaking competition, opens today, National Poetry Day, 2 October 2025, with a call to all schools in England to sign up - and with a preview of Poetry By Heart: the Movie, the inspiring new feature film documentary following schools as they enter the...
