Latest Book Reviews

  • Hen in the Bed

    A fun and colourful twist on the classic song 'ten in the bed' where you get one less animal occupying the bed each time round. The lovely split page desi...

  • Thank You

    I received this book this morning and have had to read it at least 10 times already. My two-year-old keeps asking for it again and again. He particularly...

  • Let's Go Home, Baby Chick

    Let's Go Home, Baby Chick is a lovely, interactive book for tiny readers! Throughout the book, there are counters to move along a path wh...

  • Can I Sit in the Middle?

    A child sitting on a sofa calls to the others that it is time for a story and soon, Zebra, Cat, Hamster, Lion and Child are all ready to read.  However, i...

  • Look Out! Hungry Lion (Look Out! Hungry Animals)

    This is a fun, energetic story about the food chain for young children who enjoy hide and seek, with an edge! Lion is hungry and looking for a snack. Will...

  • Tummy Time: Farm

    Tummy Time: Farm is an interesting mixture between a book and a toy for tummy time! This book can be read as a normal story but can also...

  • Thank You

    Thank You by Jarvis is a beautiful rhyming story about a little boy and all the things he is thankful for. The story mixes his words of t...

  • Once Upon a Storytime

    In this heartwarming story, we see how a young girl, Nia, and her mum bond over bedtime stories. As they explore classic fairytales, Nia asks what would h...

  • Who Rules the Rockpool?

    Who Rules the Rockpool? is a wonderfully colourful picture book with cartoon style illustrations. The speech bubbles throughout add humou...

  • I Really, Really Need a Poo

    I Really, Really Need a Poo is a really funny book, full of lots of laughs. Its all about a bush baby who really, really needs a poo, but...

  • Supertato: Eviltato vs Superpea: A brand-new adventure in the blockbuster series!

    The veggies are reading their favourite comic books at night in the supermarket when they find an advertisement for a kit to turn them more bad or good. W...

  • Measuring Me

    Measuring Me is a really fun book! It has lots of interesting facts about the human body so it is a great way to learn new things in a fu...

  • I Love Books

    I Love Books is, just as its title suggests, a celebration of the love of reading, beautifully described by award-winning author and illustrator Mariajo I...

  • The Tree and the River

    What an extraordinary book. Entirely wordless, The Tree and the River looks at a particular place in space and time. A verdant landscape,...

  • Once Upon a Big Idea: The Story of Inventions

    Once Upon a Big Idea: The Story of Inventions is a bold and beautiful book! The reader is taken on a journey through time and inventions...

  • This Book Will Make You An Artist

    This book WILL make you an artist! This non-fiction book is full of ideas to create your own masterpieces inspired by your favourite artists. On every dou...

  • Press Start! Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off!

    Press Start! Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off! is the fifth book in Thomas Flintham's series cleverly based on children's love of computer gam...

  • Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse

    Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse is an absolute block buster of a picture book. The rhythmical rhyming text guides you through...

  • Lola and Larch Fix a Fairy Forest

    Lola and Larch Fix a Fairy Forest is the first book in a new series with further titles announced for publication later this year. This e...

  • The Wilderness

    Remember Lemoney Snicket and his Series of Unfortunate Events? The Wilderness has the same sort of tone and approach, as an unseen narrat...

  • The Magician Next Door

    Callie and her father have moved away from London, away from her friends, away from her memories. Struggling to settle into her new life in Northern Irela...

  • Rex Dinosaur in Disguise: Undercover Alien

    YES! Rex, the dinosaur in disguise, is back! Rex has made it in the human world, and is now a PE teacher! However, not everyone is happy about monsters be...

  • The Magician Next Door

    Who doesn't love a beautiful story, brimming with magic? The author of The Wishkeeper's Apprentice, Rach...

  • Once Upon a Big Idea: The Story of Inventions

    Once Upon a Big Idea is a brightly coloured and fun guide to the wonderful inventions humans have made since the Stone Age, right up to t...

  • Pirates of Darksea

    In Pirates of Darksea, Christopher Reid longs to go on an adventure with Captain Thorne O'Malley aboard his pirate ship, the Stolen Sunri...

  • The Cloud Thief

    Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, like many other villages, is dependent on cloud deliveries from the Cloud Factory for its survival. With rising prices and smal...

  • The Cloud Thief

    The Cloud Thief is a gentle fantasy adventure with a big heart. The story begins in Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, where rain is in such shor...

  • Secrets of the Snakestone

    Zélie Dutta may be able to crush the head of a cobra with a bare heel, lick her elbow and peel a banana with her toes, but for all that she is stuck worki...

  • Toxic: A rainforest adventure that might just be deadly.

    Jessica moves around the world with her scientist parents. She finds each move difficult as she has to make new friends and then leave them. This time the...

  • Black Hole Cinema Club

    Have you ever watched a film wishing that you were a part of the action, the hero, the person who saves the town, saves the day, saves the world?  You nee...

  • Bite Risk

    At first glance you can tell what the theme of the book is going to be, with its well illustrated front cover. Bite Risk is a book that h...

  • Cross My Heart and Never Lie

    A heart-warming graphic novel, translated to English from Norwegian by Matt Bagguley. Perfect for girls on the cusp of becoming a teenager and nav...

  • The Love Report

    It was amazing, Noah dumps(not really) Lola and then Lola dumps Noah in front of the group that forced him to dump her, but the group leader assaulted Ade...

  • Seven Million Sunflowers

    Malcolm Duffy's latest novel is an authentic, emotional story of a displaced Ukranian family which will resonate with anyone living or working with famili...

  • Girl (In Real Life)

    Girl (In Real Life) is such a great read! If you struggle to find a book you like or don't particularly find reading fun, try this book!...

  • A Cure Ever After: the spellbinding sequel to Once Upon a Fever

    A Cure Ever After is the sequel to Once Upon a Fever (shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's...

  • Goddess Crown

    This YA fantasy debut novel by Shade Lapite has it all; it is a beautiful love story, it has murder, intrigue, plot twists and despicable villains...

  • One Last Breath

    Two teenage girls. A new town. And a pair of 20-year-old cold case murders. Tru, an 18 year old high school graduate, plans on spending her summer with he...

  • Every Exquisite Thing

    The author Laura Steven paints the picture of an old drama school in America filled to the brim with students who have academic validation and who crave f...

  • Lie or Die

    Lie or Die is a gameshow that is based on a well know game called Mafia. The contestants are selected by an interview with the hostess, P...

  • One Last Breath

    One Last Breath is fantastic. I couldn't read it fast enough! What begins as a teenage romance soon becomes something more sinister in th...

  • When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology

    When We become Ours, an unarguably groundbreaking anthology, contains a wide range of poignant and evocative stories in a variety of genr...

ReadingZone Authors of the Month

  • Mariajo Ilustrajo

    Mariajo Ilustrajo

    Award-winning author and illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo introduces her new picture book, I Love Books, on ReadingZone. <p...

  • Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn

    Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn

    Katrina Charman and Guilherme Karsten tell ReadingZone how a traditional children's song i...

  • Jarvis

    Jarvis

    Jarvis, author of The Boy With Flowers In His Hair, shares his new picture book, Thank You, with ReadingZone. Jarvis's earli...

  • James Carter

    James Carter

    James Carter introduces Once Upon a Big Idea, the latest in his poetry books exploring ideas and science ab...

  • Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif

    Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif

    Sufiya Ahmed and illustrator Hazem Asif introduce their new picture book, The Best Eid Ever.      </p...

  • Matty Long

    Matty Long

    Matty Long creates picture books including Who Rules the Rockpool?, the Super Happy Magic Forest series, Turbo Bunnies, and...

  • Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

    Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

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

  • Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle's new picture book, A Horse Called Now, explores children's worries with the help of a horse, No...

  • David Almond   (Picture Books)

    David Almond (Picture Books)

    David Almond spent his childhood in Newcastle playing football, camping with his friends and singing as an...

  • Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to pr...

  • Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage was born and raised in Stevenage. She has a First Class BA Honours in...

  • 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...

  • Em Lynas

    Em Lynas

    Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em...

  • Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...

  • Em Lynas: The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat

    Em Lynas: The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat

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

  • Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin

    Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin

    Craig Barr-Green writes picture books, non-fiction titles and theatre productions for children. He lectures...

  • Stephanie Taylor is a British-born author of Jamaican heritage. Married to Michael, she has two amazing gro...

  • Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a shock to him. He is f...

  • Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...

  • Nishani Reed lives on a steep hill, which means that her garden is taller than her house! She spends a lot...

  • Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...

  • Jennie Cashman Wilson

    Jennie Cashman Wilson

    Becoming Brave is Jennie Cashman-Wilson's first children's book. Her background is in arts fundraising and...

  • Rhiannon Findlay

    Rhiannon Findlay

    Rhiannon Findlay is a rising star in the world of children's picture books, whose talent for rhyme and imaginative story-tel...

  • David Melling

    David Melling

    David grew up in London with various siblings and a selection of animals. It took him a while to decide what he wanted to do...

  • Patrice Lawrence

    Patrice Lawrence

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

  • Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate

    Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate's new picture book series, My Small World, encourag...

  • 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...

  • Rachel Morrisroe

    Rachel Morrisroe

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

  • Piu DasGupta

    Piu DasGupta

    Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...

  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart

    Lola and Larch is Sinéad O'Hart's first chapter book series for young readers. Her books for older readers include...

  • Justin Somper

    Justin Somper

    Justin Somper, author of Vampirates, introduces his brand new pirate series, Pirate Academy! Justin grew up in St Alb...

  • Liz Flanagan

    Liz Flanagan

    Liz Flanagan, an award-winning author who writes about strange worlds and fantastical creatures, joins ReadingZone to introd...

  • James Nicol

    James Nicol

    James Nicol, author of The Apprentice Witch series, tells ReadingZone about his new eco fantasy, The Cloud Thief. Jam...

  • Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo introduces her magical new story, The Magician Next Door, and tells Re...

  • Elys Dolan

    Elys Dolan

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

  • Catherine Doyle

    Catherine Doyle

    Catherine Doyle introduces her new swashbuckling tale, Pirates of Darksea!   Catherine grew up beside the Atlantic in the we...

  • Christopher Edge

    Christopher Edge

    Black Hole Cinema Club, Christopher Edge's latest novel, is a love story to movies. Dive into an immersive blockbuster exper...

  • Jenny McLachlan

    Jenny McLachlan

    Stink the troublesome fairy is back in Fairy Vs Wizard  Jenny McLachlan's first b...

  • Gabriel Dylan

    Gabriel Dylan

    For readers who like their adventures laced with a dash of horror.... Look out for Gabriel Dylan's Shiver Point series!...

  • Guy Bass & Pete Williamson

    Guy Bass & Pete Williamson

    The bestselling Stitch Head series is getting a new look - as a graphic novel!  Author Guy Bass and illustr...

  • Ruth Millington

    Ruth Millington

    Ruth Millington is a Birmingham-based art critic and writer whose has now written a book to inspire children as artists; Thi...

  • Alex Bell

    Alex Bell

    Alex Bell introduces her magical new middle grade novel, The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts, the latest in a range of  nove...

  • Bex Hogan

    Bex Hogan

    Bronte Tempestra is author Bex Hogan's first young fiction series and it's packed with adventure, friendship and magical cre...

  • Ross Welford

    Ross Welford

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

  • Eoin Colfer

    Eoin Colfer

    Eoin Colfer worked as a teacher before turning his attention to full-time writing for children. He is best known for his phe...

  • Padraig Kenny

    Padraig Kenny

    Padraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a...

  • Peter Brown

    Peter Brown

    Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As...

  • PA Staff

    PA Staff

    PA Staff is a science communicator and vet by day, writer by night. Born and living in Norfolk, she spent her childhood grow...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...

  • Dashe Roberts

    Dashe Roberts

    Dashe Roberts has spent most of her life living on either coast of the US. After several years working in the New York theat...

  • Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

    Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

    Yaba Badoe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. Yaba was born in Ghana but now lives in Lo...

  • Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poe...

  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied

    Yassmin Abdel-Magied

    Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism.  <...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...

  • Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny,...

  • Derek Keilty

    Derek Keilty

    Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They h...

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis

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

  • Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup...

  • Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...

  • Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...

  • Matt Brown

    Matt Brown

    Matt Brown is an author and broadcaster based in the UK. His books for children including FCBG Children's B...

  • Robin Scott-Elliot

    Robin Scott-Elliot

    Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...

  • Sarah Todd Taylor

    Sarah Todd Taylor

    Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble, A Spoonful of Spyin...

  • Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami is a writer and performer. She grew up next to the sea on the sout...

  • Joshua Seigal

    Joshua Seigal

    Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Who Let the Words Out is his latest collection. Jos...

  • Helen Peters

    Helen Peters

    Helen Peters revisits the past in her new book, Friends and Traitors, set in Britain during WWII. Helen grew up on an old-fa...

  • AM Howell

    AM Howell

    A.M. Howell has always been inspired by the stories around her, and how imagination can unlock the secrets of the past. Her...

  • Sufiya Ahmed

    Sufiya Ahmed

    Sufiya Ahmed worked in advertising and in the House of Commons before becoming a full-time author. In 2010 she set up the BI...

  • Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...

  • Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...

  • Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...

  • Paige Braddock

    Paige Braddock

    Comic creator Paige Braddock introduces her new children's graphic novel, Peanut, Butter and Crackers. Paige is the Chief Cr...

  •  Hiba Noor Khan

    Hiba Noor Khan

    Hiba Noor Khan is a writer and activist based in the north of England. Her academ...

  • Hayley Webster

    Hayley Webster

    Hayley Webster writes stories about how people try to make sense of the world around them, when it so often doesn't make sen...

  • Andrew Jennings

    Andrew Jennings

    Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja, and now Spelling Ninja. An...

  • James Burks

    James Burks

    Animator and graphic novel creator James Burks introduces his action-packed series, Agent 9. James is himself a master of di...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is the million-copy bestselling author of five children's novels and has won the Costa Ch...

  • Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband Clive, two children, and an assortment of ponies, do...

  • Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

    Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

    Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, fea...

  • Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott

    Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott

    Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a...

  • Steven Lenton

    Steven Lenton

    Steven Lenton, creator of the Genie and Teeny series for young readers, works from his studio in B...

  • Skye McKenna

    Skye McKenna

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

  • Andy Shepherd

    Andy Shepherd

    Andy Shepherd is a bestselling author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series, and picture books. She lives near Cambridge with h...

  • Katya Balen: The Thames and Tide Club

    Katya Balen: The Thames and Tide Club

    Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...

  • Laura Mucha & Ed Smith

    Laura Mucha & Ed Smith

    Laura and Ed are fascinated by the things we humans grow, cook and eat. They also share and enjoy many meal...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Piu DasGupta

    Piu DasGupta

    Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...

  • Sarah Crossan

    Sarah Crossan

    Sarah Crossan introduces her powerful new verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury YA). Sa...

  • Liz Flanagan

    Liz Flanagan

    Liz Flanagan, an award-winning author who writes about strange worlds and fantastical creatures, joins ReadingZone to introd...

  • Catherine Doyle

    Catherine Doyle

    Catherine Doyle introduces her new swashbuckling tale, Pirates of Darksea!   Catherine grew up beside the Atlantic in the we...

  • Christopher Edge

    Christopher Edge

    Black Hole Cinema Club, Christopher Edge's latest novel, is a love story to movies. Dive into an immersive blockbuster exper...

  • Nora Dasnes

    Nora Dasnes

    Nora Dåsnes is an author and illustrator. Cross My Heart and Never Lie is her debut as a writer and illustr...

  • Sylvia Bishop

    Sylvia Bishop

    Sylvia Bishop's new book, On Silver Tides, is her first novel for teenagers. Sylvia spent an entire childhood reading fictio...

  • Gabriel Dylan

    Gabriel Dylan

    For readers who like their adventures laced with a dash of horror.... Look out for Gabriel Dylan's Shiver Point series!...

  • Tim Hall

    Tim Hall

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    Ross Welford

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    Candy Gourlay

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    Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

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    PA Staff

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    Katherine Rundell

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    Dashe Roberts

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    Lisa Williamson

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    Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

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    Yassmin Abdel-Magied

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    Katya Balen

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    Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

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    Thomas Taylor

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    Robin Scott-Elliot

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  • Helen Peters

    Helen Peters

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    AM Howell

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  • Sufiya Ahmed

    Sufiya Ahmed

    Sufiya Ahmed worked in advertising and in the House of Commons before becoming a full-time author. In 2010 she set up the BI...

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    Tania Unsworth

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    Judith Eagle

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    Hayley Webster

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    Freja Nicole Woolf

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  • Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin lives on an arable farm in Dorset with her farmer husband Clive, two children, and an assortment of ponies, do...

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    Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott

    Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a...

  • Sarah Hagger-Holt

    Sarah Hagger-Holt

    Sarah Hagger-Holt is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author. Her debut novel for childre...

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    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...

  • Sophie Cameron

    Sophie Cameron

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

    M.A. Bennett (The Butterfly Club series)

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  • 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...

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    Mel Darbon

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

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    Elizabeth Wein

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

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    Francesca Gibbons

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

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    Skye Melki-Wegner

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    Kiyash Monsef

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    Alexandra Beever

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

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    MG Leonard

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

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    Cath Howe

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    Nizrana Farook

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    Misa Sugiura

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    Alice M Ross

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    Ruth Lauren

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    Iszi Lawrence

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    Jeremy Dronfield

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    Clare Weze

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    Brian Conaghan

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    Sinéad O'Hart

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    Malcolm Duffy

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    Fleur Hitchcock

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    Sarah Ann Juckes

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    Jason Rohan

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    Michelle Paver

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    Finbar Hawkins

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    Matt Goodfellow

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    Chris Vick

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    Nicola Morgan

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    A.F. Harrold

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    Jo Simmons

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    Jessica Scott-Whyte

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    Sarah Crossan

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    Tim Hall

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    Shade Lapite

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    Kelly McCaughrain

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    Krystal Sutherland

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  • Candy Gourlay

    Candy Gourlay

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  • Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...

  • Sally Nicholls

    Sally Nicholls

    Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick and then t...

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    Freja Nicole Woolf

    Freja Nicole Woolf wrote her debut Never Trust a Gemini at just 24 years - a joyful, romantic alternative to the issue-led L...

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    Becky Albertalli

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    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...

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    Sara Barnard

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    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

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  • Chris Vick

    Chris Vick

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

  • Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

    Katharine and Elizabeth Corr

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

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    Jo Simmons

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  • Tracy Darnton

    Tracy Darnton

    Tracy Darnton's new tense YA page-turner, Ready or Not, follows a group of teenagers meeti...

  • Sue Divin

    Sue Divin

    Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a...

  • Sita Brahmachari

    Sita Brahmachari

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  • Piu DasGupta

    Piu DasGupta

    Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...

  • PA Staff

    PA Staff

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  • Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

    Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley

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  • Skye McKenna

    Skye McKenna

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

  • 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...

  • Alasdair Beckett-King

    Alasdair Beckett-King

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

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    Piu DasGupta

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    Sinéad O'Hart

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    Justin Somper

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    Mariajo Ilustrajo

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    Sarah Crossan

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    Ginny Myers Sain

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  • Liz Flanagan

    Liz Flanagan

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    Katrina Charman & Guilherme Karstenn

    Katrina Charman and Guilherme Karsten tell ReadingZone how a traditional children's song i...

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    James Nicol

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    Rachel Chivers Khoo

    Rachel Chivers Khoo introduces her magical new story, The Magician Next Door, and tells Re...

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    Elys Dolan

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

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    Catherine Doyle

    Catherine Doyle introduces her new swashbuckling tale, Pirates of Darksea!   Catherine grew up beside the Atlantic in the we...

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    Jarvis

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    Christopher Edge

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    James Carter

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  • Nora Dasnes

    Nora Dasnes

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    Jenny McLachlan

    Stink the troublesome fairy is back in Fairy Vs Wizard  Jenny McLachlan's first b...

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    Sylvia Bishop

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    Gabriel Dylan

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    Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif

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    Guy Bass & Pete Williamson

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    Ruth Millington

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    Alex Bell

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    Bex Hogan

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    Tim Hall

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  • Ross Welford

    Ross Welford

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

  • Matty Long

    Matty Long

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  • Eoin Colfer

    Eoin Colfer

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  • Padraig Kenny

    Padraig Kenny

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  • Shade Lapite

    Shade Lapite

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  • Kelly McCaughrain

    Kelly McCaughrain

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  • Krystal Sutherland

    Krystal Sutherland

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  • Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

    Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate

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

  • Peter Brown

    Peter Brown

    Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As...

  • Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle & Alexandra Finkeldey

    Ruth Doyle's new picture book, A Horse Called Now, explores children's worries with the help of a horse, No...

  • Candy Gourlay

    Candy Gourlay

    Candy Gourlay is of Filipino heritage, and was a journalist before becoming an author. Her novels Tall Story (her debut) and...

  • Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent

    Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...

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    David Almond (Picture Books)

    David Almond spent his childhood in Newcastle playing football, camping with his friends and singing as an...

  • Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Rahman

    Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to pr...

  • Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage

    Chloe Savage was born and raised in Stevenage. She has a First Class BA Honours in...

  • Sally Nicholls

    Sally Nicholls

    Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick and then t...

  • PA Staff

    PA Staff

    PA Staff is a science communicator and vet by day, writer by night. Born and living in Norfolk, she spent her childhood grow...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...

  • Dashe Roberts

    Dashe Roberts

    Dashe Roberts has spent most of her life living on either coast of the US. After several years working in the New York theat...

  • 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...

  • Lisa Williamson

    Lisa Williamson

    Lisa Williamson grew up in Nottingham, studied drama and worked as an actor on stage and TV. Her first nove...

  • Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

    Yaba Badoe and Joelle Avelino

    Yaba Badoe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. Yaba was born in Ghana but now lives in Lo...

  • Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill

    Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base of over 650,000 Instagram followers. Her poe...

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    Yassmin Abdel-Magied

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    Em Lynas

    Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em...

  • Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms & Ged Adamson

    Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...

  • Katya Balen

    Katya Balen

    Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...

  • Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny,...

  • Derek Keilty

    Derek Keilty

    Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They h...

  • Ben Davis

    Ben Davis

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

  • Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup...

  • Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs

    Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...

  • Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin

    Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin

    Craig Barr-Green writes picture books, non-fiction titles and theatre productions for children. He lectures...

  • Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor

    Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...

  • Matt Brown

    Matt Brown

    Matt Brown is an author and broadcaster based in the UK. His books for children including FCBG Children's B...

  • Robin Scott-Elliot

    Robin Scott-Elliot

    Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...

  • Sarah Todd Taylor

    Sarah Todd Taylor

    Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble, A Spoonful of Spyin...

  • Stephanie Taylor is a British-born author of Jamaican heritage. Married to Michael, she has two amazing gro...

  • Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami

    Annabelle Sami is a writer and performer. She grew up next to the sea on the sout...

  • Joshua Seigal

    Joshua Seigal

    Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Who Let the Words Out is his latest collection. Jos...

  • Helen Peters

    Helen Peters

    Helen Peters revisits the past in her new book, Friends and Traitors, set in Britain during WWII. Helen grew up on an old-fa...

  • AM Howell

    AM Howell

    A.M. Howell has always been inspired by the stories around her, and how imagination can unlock the secrets of the past. Her...

  • Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland

    Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a shock to him. He is f...

  • Sufiya Ahmed

    Sufiya Ahmed

    Sufiya Ahmed worked in advertising and in the House of Commons before becoming a full-time author. In 2010 she set up the BI...

  • Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton

    Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...

  • Nishani Reed lives on a steep hill, which means that her garden is taller than her house! She spends a lot...

  • Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst

    Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...

  • Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth

    Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...

  • Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle

    Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...

  • Paige Braddock

    Paige Braddock

    Comic creator Paige Braddock introduces her new children's graphic novel, Peanut, Butter and Crackers. Paige is the Chief Cr...

  •  Hiba Noor Khan

    Hiba Noor Khan

    Hiba Noor Khan is a writer and activist based in the north of England. Her academ...

  • Jennie Cashman Wilson

    Jennie Cashman Wilson

    Becoming Brave is Jennie Cashman-Wilson's first children's book. Her background is in arts fundraising and...

  • Hayley Webster

    Hayley Webster

    Hayley Webster writes stories about how people try to make sense of the world around them, when it so often doesn't make sen...

  • Rhiannon Findlay

    Rhiannon Findlay

    Rhiannon Findlay is a rising star in the world of children's picture books, whose talent for rhyme and imaginative story-tel...

  • Freja Nicole Woolf

    Freja Nicole Woolf

    Freja Nicole Woolf wrote her debut Never Trust a Gemini at just 24 years - a joyful, romantic alternative to the issue-led L...

  • 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...

  • Andrew Jennings

    Andrew Jennings

    Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja, and now Spelling Ninja. An...

  • James Burks

    James Burks

    Animator and graphic novel creator James Burks introduces his action-packed series, Agent 9. James is himself a master of di...

  • Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is the million-copy bestselling author of five children's novels and has won the Costa Ch...

  • Olivia Tuffin

    Olivia Tuffin

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    Sarah Hagger-Holt

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

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    Ross Montgomery

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    Skye Melki-Wegner

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    Kiyash Monsef

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    MG Leonard

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    Cath Howe

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    Nizrana Farook

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    Misa Sugiura

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    Cath Howe - Call the Puffins

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    Joseph Coelho

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    David Owen

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    Charles Dowding

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    Alice M Ross

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    Ruth Lauren

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    Rachel Burge

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    Iszi Lawrence

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  • Gill Lewis

    Gill Lewis

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  • Alasdair Beckett-King

    Alasdair Beckett-King

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  • Clare Weze

    Clare Weze

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  • Jesse Q Sutanto

    Jesse Q Sutanto

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  • Colm Field

    Colm Field

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  • Brian Conaghan

    Brian Conaghan

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  • Sinéad O'Hart

    Sinéad O'Hart

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  • Pamela Butchart

    Pamela Butchart

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    Leah Mohammed

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    Malcolm Duffy

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    Fleur Hitchcock

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    JP Rose

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  • Darren Charlton

    Darren Charlton

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  • Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins

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    Jessica Scott-Whyte

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