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Choose Your Own Evolution: Will you survive?
Authors Q&As
Monday, June 16, 2025
Did you know that chickens and penguins are descended from dinosaurs; that evolving to sleep for months helped save crocodiles from extinction; and that octopus and sharks are distantly related? Find out all about how creatures have evolved during their millions of years on Earth from...
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Odd Girl Out, a novel about finding your place in your world
Authors Q&As
Thursday, May 29, 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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A magical Gargoyles adventure
Authors Q&As
Friday, May 2, 2025
An inexperienced Guardian. A missing kelpie. A growing threat. Callen may have befriended a gargoyle, but he's yet to complete his training....
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Authors share stories from their disabled childhoods
Authors Q&As
Friday, April 18, 2025
Owning It is a new anthology by disabled authors, who share their stories and experiences of growing up disabled. Author Jen Campbell tells ReadingZone why the authors are sharing their childhood experiences
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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!
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Meet a small mouse, called Clementine
Authors Q&As
Friday, September 16, 2022
Author Carlie Sorosiak introduces Always, Clementine, about a small mouse with a big heart.
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Stories with an edge!
Authors Q&As
Thursday, July 8, 2021
If you like your stories with an edge - but also stories that make you laugh - then you'll LOVE Guy Bass's Skeleton Keys series!
