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  • No Matter What . . . We All Belong

    The title of this book, No Matter What . . . We All Belong, is such an important message and needs to be shared with everyone. This is su...

  • No Matter What . . . We All Belong

    This wonderful board book combines peep-through pages throughout and an irresistibly, squishy shiny rainbow at the end, when delivering this crucial messa...

  • The Bear, the Book and the Blanket

    The Bear, the Book and the Blanket is a sweet picture book about getting baby settled and ready for bed where ten cute bunnies help to fi...

  • Hooray for Hoppy: A First Book of Senses

    Hooray! For Hoppy is a really interesting take on a children's sensory book. It gives us insight into the sounds, sights, smells and feel...

  • Pick-a-Chick: Happy Easter

    Is your child a fan of the 'You Choose' collection? If so, they will be very fond of Pick-A-Chick, illustrated by Nia Gould. We begin wit...

  • The Bear, the Book and the Blanket

    As parents we have all been there; it is baby's bedtime and all of the comforters are missing! Where is bear, their book and their blanket?  Nothing can b...

  • If I had a crocodile

    If I had a crocodile is part of the series If I had a ... published by Thames and Hudson. The front cover has a huge cro...

  • This Girl Can Be a Bit Shy

    Meet Ruby. Some days she is brave, bouncy and chat-chat-chatty. Other days, she is not - and that's OK! She knows what she wants, and she does things her...

  • Marvellous Margot

    Marvellous Margot is a beautifully illustrated book which follows Margot’s journey through the town to her friend Oscar's house. On the w...

  • The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat

    The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is a hilarious adventure tale of rivals stoat and goat, who battle it out for a place in a boat! With...

  • Sunny Side Up

    In a climate where mental health and talking about you feelings is in the forefront of everything that we do, this wonderfully written story is the perfec...

  • Holey Moley

    This HOLE-ARIOUS story will have children laughing from the very beginning. Will they identify with Gus the Goat, who loves guessing and rhyming, or Mole...

  • Grandpa and the Kingfisher

    Grandpa and the Kingfisher is a beautifully illustrated book which follows a little girl and her grandfather over the course of a year al...

  • The Glass Slipper Academy (Fairytale Ninjas, Book 1)

    Fairytale Ninjas is the amazing concept of Paula Harrison. Before launching a successful writing career, Paula was a Primary school teacher. Her years tea...

  • The Chalk Garden

    The Chalk Garden is a really lovely picture book, one that supports giving space to wild planting and which encourages children to observ...

  • Sunny Side Up

    Sunny Side Up is a gorgeous book with hidden delights and expanding surprises. This book explores wellbeing and supports feelings and emo...

  • Holey Moley

    Be prepared to giggle, laugh out loud and support Mavis Mole in Holey Moley by Bethan Clarke and Anders Frang. In Holey Moley we meet Gus...

  • The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat

    If you love rhyming books, The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is another clever, funny book by Em Lynas and Matt Hunt. The main characte...

  • The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    Clem is part of a mudlarking club along with her friends Ash and Zara, looking for treasure on the banks of the Thames. Everything the club finds gets tak...

  • The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    Clem and her best friends Ash and Zara are mudlarkers. Along with the other members of the Thames and Tide Club, they spend their weekends searching the r...

  • How to be a Detective and Other Crime-Fighting Jobs

    How to be a Detective and Other Crime Fighting Jobs is from a new series of books all about amazing and incredible jobs. The book is set...

  • How to be a Detective and Other Crime-Fighting Jobs

    A very interesting read! How to be a Detective and Other Crime-Fighting Jobs is a non-fiction book all about what life is like if you are...

  • The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City

    As a fan of Katya Balen's writing, I was keen to see what she can do for younger readers and The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City is an appealing, fu...

  • Forest School Handbook

    Forest School Handbook is a fantastic forest school guide written by two absolute experts in bringing practical learning, fun activities...

  • Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body

    Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body is the perfect book to share with developing youngsters as they navigate...

  • Until the Road Ends

    Until the Road Ends is the story of Beau, a dog from the streets, who is saved by a girl called Peggy. When war breaks out, the two are s...

  • Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins

    Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins is the perfect resource to use in supporting children with their learning of...

  • Serpent of the Sands

    Gan - Princess Ganzorig - has a real taste for adventure and when one of her beloved uncles, King Temur, falls dangerously ill, she sets off in her sky-sh...

  • Until the Road Ends

    When Peggy saves a stray, she and Beau, the dog, become inseparable. However, they are forced apart by the war as Peggy and her brother, Wilf, are evacuat...

  • The Stickleback Catchers

    Mimi has been brought up by her grandparents since she was a baby. Now they all live together in a flat over a bowls club in North-East England. Mimi ador...

  • Just Like Everyone Else

    Most teenagers work hard to 'fit in', knowing that there is nothing worse than becoming an obvious target for the group of boys or girls in school who lik...

  • Every Word A Lie

    Every Word A Lie is a murder mystery that is full of twists and turns. It is fast-paced and really builds the tension. It is also a bit o...

  • This Is The Way The World Ends

    Attending prestigious Webber Academy in New York, scholarship student Waverly is used to keeping a low profile and fitting in. Academic but with parents i...

  • Just Like Everyone Else

    Aidan is thirteen and uneasy - about his crowded family, about how people at school might think of him and, most of all, uneasy about himself. He thinks t...

  • Let's Play Murder

    Let's Play Murder has to be the first book in a while to have an ending I didn't expect. Well written and exciting, I could easily get ba...

  • The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars

    The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars is an absolute stunner! Told through the eyes of Spartan princess, Gor...

  • Mindwalker: The action-packed dystopian science-fiction novel

    Mindwalker is a sci-fi debut novel for 2023. The author has packed it full of action and twists and turns making it a fast-paced read. 18...

  • Love You to Death

    Someone is obsessed with Mia Hawkins… I normally offer a summary of the book before a review, but this is one that I am not going to do that for in case I...

  • Where the Light Goes

    Emmy's left devastated and confused when her famous sister, Lizzie Beck, takes her own life. Faced with hostile media, distant parents, and her own overwh...

  • A Game of Life or Death

    I'll be honest... I am no gamer. In fact, my experiences of online gaming are limited to watching others interact with those brightly coloured pixels that...

  • Lies We Sing to the Sea

    Reimaginings of the Greek myths are currently enjoying an explosion in popularity, fuelled in part by Booktok. This debut novel, Lies We Sing to t...

  • Every Gift a Curse

    Every Gift is a Curse is the final book in the supernatural YA series All our Hidden Gifts; an...

ReadingZone Authors of the Month

  • Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...

  • Deborah Chancellor

    Deborah Chancellor

    Deborah Chancellor has written over a hundred books for children, from toddlers to teenagers. She has tackled a broad range...

  • Sally Anne Garland

    Sally Anne Garland

    Sally Anne Garland grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, aged four,...

  • Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo

    Clare Helen Welsh & Ana Sanfelippo

    Clare Helen Welsh is a primary school teacher and children's author who lives in South West England with he...

  • John Kane

    John Kane

    When John Kane was younger, he liked to make up stories for his little sister. Jimmy and Bear, who appeared in them, are sti...

  • Em Lynas

    Em Lynas

    Em Lynas loves to write funny books and her latest picture book The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is a hi...

  • Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe is a new voice in the world of rhyming picture books. She is working with leading pi...

  • Anna Wilson

    Anna Wilson

    Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...

  • Ged Adamson:  Ged was born in Liverpool and as a child he was obsessed with drawing, listening to music and...

  • John Bond

    John Bond

    John Bond studied illustration at Kingston University and worked for seven years at an award-winni...

  • Laura Baker

    Laura Baker

    Laura Baker is the author of all sorts of books for children. She has written about feelings, farm...

  • Thomas Flintham

    Thomas Flintham

    Thomas Flintham has always loved to draw and tell stories, and now that is his job! He grew up in Lincoln, England, and stud...

  • Robert Tregoning

    Robert Tregoning

    Writer and performer Robert Tregoning's debut picture book, Out of the Blue, celebrates di...

  • Sarah Coyle

    Sarah Coyle

    Sarah Coyle is the author of The Biggest Story, illustrated by Dan Taylor, and Once You're asleep, illustrated by Carolina R...

  • Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's new picture book series, Frank and Bert, takes a warm and funny look at fr...

  • Ross Collins

    Ross Collins

    Ross Collins's primary teacher told his parents that he should go to art school. 13 years went by until he was finally 'old...

  • Jon Agee

    Jon Agee

    Award-winning author Jon Agee's latest picture book, Little Santa, tells us how Santa Claus came to be. His...

  • Helen Mortimer

    Helen Mortimer

    Helen Mortimer works as a freelance children's books editor and author. After many years working for major...

  • Mini Grey

    Mini Grey

    Award-winning author and illustrator Mini Grey has had many careers including working in theatre design, teaching and even a...

  • Hoang Giang

    Hoang Giang

    Giang has been working as a children’s book illustrator for more than 10 years. She works in a studio with her partner and t...

  • Ada Grey

    Ada Grey

    Ada spent several years working for design companies before deciding that she preferred doodling. She lives in Brighton with...

  • Molly Potter

    Molly Potter

    What Makes Me Do the Things I Do? is the latest in a series of books by Molly Potter addressing young child...

  • Polly Faber and Melissa Crowton

    Polly Faber and Melissa Crowton

    Polly Faber's grandfather set up the publishing house Faber & Faber so she grew up reading, and read mo...

  • Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms and Ged Adamson share their new picture book, This is Not a Dinosaur, which fo...

  • Steve Small

    Steve Small

    Animator Steve Small's latest picture book, Wellington's Big Day Out, follows a young elephant on a special...

  • Mariajo Ilustrajo

    Mariajo Ilustrajo

    Flooded is Mariajo Ilustrajo's first picture book, about a city of animals that must work together to solve the problem of f...

  • Olivia Hope

    Olivia Hope

    Olivia Hope is an Irish writer with a special love for children’s fiction. A former record-breaking athlete...

  • Patrice Lawrence

    Patrice Lawrence

    Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces her first picture book, Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush. Pat...

  • Frances Stickley and Eamonn O'Neill

    Frances Stickley and Eamonn O'Neill

    Frances Stickley's new picture book Not a Cat in Sight plays with the idea of what the pictures show, compa...

  • Lauren Ace

    Lauren Ace

    Lauren Ace is from south Wales, studied Drama at the University of Exeter, and now lives in London, where she has worked in...

  • Caryl Hart & Anastasia Suvorova

    Caryl Hart & Anastasia Suvorova

    Discover how a real life story helped inspire this picture book, The Girl Who Planted Trees, about a young...

  • Claire Winslow

    Claire Winslow

    Claire Winslow's We Are the Rainbow is a gorgeous introduction for young children to the colours of Pride. Claire is a write...

  • Caryl Hart & Emily Hamilton

    Caryl Hart & Emily Hamilton

    Thank you for the Little Things, the new picture book by Caryl Hart and Emily Ham...

  • Stephanie Stansbie

    Stephanie Stansbie

    Stephanie Stansbie's new picture book, This Girl Can Do Anything, is a bold and funny look...

  • Casper Salmon

    Casper Salmon

    How to Count to One is the surprising and hilarious picture book by Casper Salmon, illustrated by Matt Hunt...

  • Lu Fraser

    Lu Fraser

    One Camel Called Doug is a brilliant story about the joys of sometimes being alone, with some great countin...

  • Karen Swann

    Karen Swann

    Karen Swann and Padmacandra's new picture book, The Tale of the Whale, takes us on a journ...

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis

    Ben Davis is an award-winning children's author whose books include <a href="/books/the-private-blog-of-joe...

  • Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons has been telling tall tales for as long as she can remember. She had the idea for The Sha...

  • Skye McKenna

    Skye McKenna

    Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...

  • Roland Chambers

    Roland Chambers

    Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and...

  • Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar

    Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for...

  • Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner is a YA and children's fantasy author and dinosaur lover. Over the years, she has worked everywhere from a...

  • Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...

  • Alexandra Beever

    Alexandra Beever

    DC Alexandra Beever has been a detective with Thames Valley Police for 15 years. Following a science degree...

  • Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...

  • Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...

  • MG Leonard

    MG Leonard

    MG Leonard's Twitch series takes us into the world of birds and bird watching. She is also the author of be...

  • Cath Howe

    Cath Howe

    Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...

  • Nizrana Farook

    Nizrana Farook

    The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...

  • M.A. Bennett  (The Butterfly Club series)

    M.A. Bennett (The Butterfly Club series)

    M.A. Bennett, bestselling author of STAGS, introduces her time-travel adventure series, The Butterfly Club, for middle grade...

  • Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...

  • Hannah Foley

    Hannah Foley

    Hannah Foley's latest novel, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, is a du...

  • Cath Howe - Call the Puffins

    Cath Howe - Call the Puffins

    Cath Howe is well known for exploring the everyday lives of children and her new series for younger children, Call the Puffi...

  • Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024.  He grew up i...

  • David Owen

    David Owen

    Having worked as a freelance games journalist and taught on a BA Creative Writing course for three years, David Owen's debut...

  • Philip Reeve has been writing stories since he was five years old but Mortal Engines was the first to be pu...

  • Charles Dowding

    Charles Dowding

    Charles Dowding is an innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, who has built up a large and dedicat...

  • Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross has spent most of her career as a journalist at the Financial Times, where she was most recently Deputy News Ed...

  • Ruth Lauren

    Ruth Lauren

    Ruth Lauren has been a teacher and worked in lots of different offices, but she likes writing best, as well as walking in th...

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the pa...

  • Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...

  • Gill Lewis

    Gill Lewis

    After realising her childhood dream of becoming a vet, Gill worked in the UK and overseas, everywhere from Africa to the Arc...

  • Jarvis

    Jarvis

    Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories is author and illustrator Jarvis's first chapter book. His picture books include...

  • Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo was born in Belfast and spent most of her childhood sheltering in her local library fro...

  • Alasdair Beckett-King

    Alasdair Beckett-King

    Comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King's first book for children is the hilarious murder-mystery Montgom...

  • Clare Weze

    Clare Weze

    Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...

  • Ross Welford

    Ross Welford

    Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows su...

  • Colm Field

    Colm Field

    Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happi...

  • Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan lives and works in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He was a teacher for many years and taught in Scotland, I...

  • Thomas Flintham

    Thomas Flintham

    Thomas Flintham has always loved to draw and tell stories, and now that is his job! He grew up in Lincoln, England, and stud...

  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart was raised in a small house full of books in the south-east of Ireland. She has a degree in Medieval English a...

  • Pamela Butchart

    Pamela Butchart

    As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and w...

  • Leah Mohammed

    Leah Mohammed

    Leah Mohammed's debut book for younger readers follows Luma who discovers a young dragon in her garden. </p...

  • Catherine Jacob

    Catherine Jacob

    The adventures in Catherine Jacob's new series, Puppy Club, were inspired by her family's new puppy. Catherine is a w...

  • Fleur Hitchcock

    Fleur Hitchcock

    Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Snowfall, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur b...

  • Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people.  The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by...

  • Kirsty Applebaum

    Kirsty Applebaum

    Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - bu...

  • Jason Rohan

    Jason Rohan

    Jason Rohan's new book S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied (Nosy Crow Books) is the first in an action-packed, ga...

  • Isabel Thomas

    Isabel Thomas

    Isabel Thomas is a science writer and the author of a galaxy of books for young audiences, including Moth:...

  • Nicola Morgan

    Nicola Morgan

    Nicola Morgan, aka The Teenage Brain Woman, is an award-winning author and speaker on many areas of well-being and learning....

  • Jessica Scott-Whyte

    Jessica Scott-Whyte

    The Asparagus Bunch is  Jessica Scott-Whyte's debut novel. Jessica was born and raised in Dublin. She studied French and His...

  • Elys Dolan

    Elys Dolan

    Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from E...

  • Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons

    Francesca Gibbons has been telling tall tales for as long as she can remember. She had the idea for The Sha...

  • Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner

    Skye Melki-Wegner is a YA and children's fantasy author and dinosaur lover. Over the years, she has worked everywhere from a...

  • Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef

    Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...

  • Alexandra Beever

    Alexandra Beever

    DC Alexandra Beever has been a detective with Thames Valley Police for 15 years. Following a science degree...

  • Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...

  • Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery

    Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at un...

  • Mel Darbon

    Mel Darbon

    Mel spent a large part of her childhood inventing stories to keep her autistic brother happy on car journeys. Having worked...

  • MG Leonard

    MG Leonard

    MG Leonard's Twitch series takes us into the world of birds and bird watching. She is also the author of be...

  • Cath Howe

    Cath Howe

    Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...

  • Nizrana Farook

    Nizrana Farook

    The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...

  • M.A. Bennett  (The Butterfly Club series)

    M.A. Bennett (The Butterfly Club series)

    M.A. Bennett, bestselling author of STAGS, introduces her time-travel adventure series, The Butterfly Club, for middle grade...

  • Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein was born in New York and grew up in England, Jamaica and Pennsylvania. She holds American and British citizen...

  • Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura

    Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...

  • Hannah Foley

    Hannah Foley

    Hannah Foley's latest novel, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, is a du...

  • Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross

    Alice M Ross has spent most of her career as a journalist at the Financial Times, where she was most recently Deputy News Ed...

  • Ruth Lauren

    Ruth Lauren

    Ruth Lauren has been a teacher and worked in lots of different offices, but she likes writing best, as well as walking in th...

  • Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant

    Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the pa...

  • Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence

    Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...

  • Jeremy Dronfield

    Jeremy Dronfield

    Jeremy Dronfield has written many books about the lives and adventures of amazing people from history. Most...

  • Clare Weze

    Clare Weze

    Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...

  • Ross Welford

    Ross Welford

    Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows su...

  • Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan lives and works in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He was a teacher for many years and taught in Scotland, I...

  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart was raised in a small house full of books in the south-east of Ireland. She has a degree in Medieval English a...

  • Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...

  • Fleur Hitchcock

    Fleur Hitchcock

    Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Snowfall, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur b...

  • Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes

    Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people.  The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - bu...

  • Jason Rohan

    Jason Rohan

    Jason Rohan's new book S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied (Nosy Crow Books) is the first in an action-packed, ga...

  • Michelle Paver

    Michelle Paver

    Wolfbane, the ninth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, brings to a close the internationally bestselling ser...

  • Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...

  • Matt Goodfellow

    Matt Goodfellow

    Matt Goodfellow is from Manchester. He spends his time writing and touring the UK and beyond - visiting schools, libraries a...

  • Chris Vick

    Chris Vick

    In between writing and teaching, Chris Vick works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity which has helped inspire The...

  • Nicola Morgan

    Nicola Morgan

    Nicola Morgan, aka The Teenage Brain Woman, is an award-winning author and speaker on many areas of well-being and learning....

  • Simon Fox

    Simon Fox

    Running out of Time is Simon Fox's first novel after 20 years trapped in the dungeon of accountancy.  He is determined to ne...

  • A.F. Harrold

    A.F. Harrold

    A.F. Harrold is an English poet and children's author, whose books include The Worlds We Leave Behind, The Song from Somewhe...

  • Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...

  • Jessica Scott-Whyte

    Jessica Scott-Whyte

    The Asparagus Bunch is  Jessica Scott-Whyte's debut novel. Jessica was born and raised in Dublin. She studied French and His...

  • Becky Albertalli

    Becky Albertalli

    Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of...

  • Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard

    Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media. Sa...

  • Mel Darbon

    Mel Darbon

    Mel spent a large part of her childhood inventing stories to keep her autistic brother happy on car journeys. Having worked...

  • Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein was born in New York and grew up in England, Jamaica and Pennsylvania. She holds American and British citizen...

  • Rachel Burge

    Rachel Burge

    YA author Rachel Burge's new novel, Waking the Witch, follows her earlier YA books The Twisted Tre...

  • Jesse Q Sutanto

    Jesse Q Sutanto

    Jesse writes books for children and adults, and her first YA romcom, Well, That Was Unexpected, is now available. Jes...

  • Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy

    Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...

  • JP Rose

    JP Rose

    Author JP Rose's first YA novel, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker, is a gripping psychological horror story. JP Rose was born i...

  • Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton's lifetime obsessions with the National Parks of America, horror, film music and 80s kids movies have all wo...

  • Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...

  • Chris Vick

    Chris Vick

    In between writing and teaching, Chris Vick works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity which has helped inspire The...

  • Simon Fox

    Simon Fox

    Running out of Time is Simon Fox's first novel after 20 years trapped in the dungeon of accountancy.  He is determined to ne...

  • Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

    Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

    Katharine and Elizabeth Corr revisit the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in their new Daughter of Darkne...

  • Catherine Barter

    Catherine Barter

    Catherine Barter's We Played with Fire has won the Young Quill's Award for historical fiction for her novel...

  • Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons

    Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...

  • Tracy Darnton

    Tracy Darnton

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    Katya Balen

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    Sarah Coyle

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    Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

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    Marcus Sedgwick

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    Jason Rohan

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    Michelle Paver

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    Helen Mortimer

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    Isabel Thomas

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    Darren Charlton

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    Finbar Hawkins

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    Matt Goodfellow

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    Ada Grey

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    Chris Vick

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    Nicola Morgan

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