Latest Book Reviews
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Have you children ever said, 'Just one more hug, just one more kiss...' This beautiful picture book tell the story of two animals looking for a goodnight...
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Is your little animal lover ready to discover the big outdoors as they explore their first woodland? Big Outdoors for Little Explorers: Woods</str...
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As parents, we absolutely adore this book - just as much as our one year old! As soon as we read the title, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush</st...
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I blame this book for the Christmas excitement in my house! We now already have a Christmas book out that can't possibly be put away! Award-winning illust...
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Ruffles is back! Our Nursery children love to listen to the adventures of Ruffles, the playful puppy who faces all the tricky troubles of pre-school life....
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I remember when my child was very young feeling slightly overwhelmed by how much they had to learn, and how to go about imparting all that knowledge - so...
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Little Owl's Bedtime is a charming tale about a small owls who is busy while other animals are fast asleep. This book will be a loved at...
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A book for children who love exploring and enjoy the outside. There is so much to see on each page; National Trust: Look What I Found on the Farm is packe...
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Sarah has written a beautiful book to help children understand their sad and worried feelings. In Blue, the worry feeling is a monster ca...
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Look out for delicious characters plus tasty twists and turns in this unique picture book, Pick a Story: A Dinosaur Unicorn Robot Adventure</stron...
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If you have a child who is at the stage of learning to ride a bike, then this book is perfect for you. It helps children understand that learning to ride...
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Frank and Bert, The One Where Bert Learns to Ride a Bike is the second book in the Frank and Bert se...
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The Emerald Forest is a beautiful picture book which can be enjoyed on many levels. It's the story of an orangutang family living an idyl...
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A Ticket to Kalamazoo! is an absolutely delightful collection of poems for the younger reader. It's beautifully designed and illustrated...
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A really interesting and unique way to write a book. The beauty of Pick a Story: A Dinosaur Unicorn Robot Adventure is that after you've...
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We liked the different characters especially the snake. We also liked how duck made his own club so everyone join, how kind is that. The lion roaring was...
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Sarah and Adam have created not one but three stories with multiple different endings in this playful book, Pick a Story: A Pirate Alien Jungle Ad...
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If you want children writing stories and drawing illustrations, then this is the book to have! Even reluctant and defiant children will have a pencil in h...
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Selfies With Komodos is a fab little book of new poems from the well-known poet Brian Moses. There are poems about dogs and cats, mythica...
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Keva usually spends every Saturday helping her grandpa at his animal adoption centre. But when he has to go to the hospital one week and Keva goes to visi...
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There's a Beast in the Basement is another fab laugh-out-loud book by Pamela Butchart. Once again Izzy and her friends are on the road to...
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There are huge laughs once again in There's a Beast in the Basement!, the latest adventure with Izzy and the gang. When the school day st...
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13-year-old Alice Éclair, cake maker supreme by day and spy for the French government by night, is off on a mission. And it's not to buy fresh eggs for he...
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Robert Trebor, known as Bob, is 12 years old and has recently discovered that he can time travel. One moment he was wallowing in hot bubbly water, and the...
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Welcome to a world of Marvellers at the Arcanium Training Institute where young Marvellers and their unique powers across the globe attend school to learn...
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Rida and Madiya are sisters but don't really see eye to eye. However, when the future of the local library is threatened, can the girls w...
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Here is my first 'must buy, must read' title for 2023! There are so many books about the Holocaust but for me, Fritz and Kurt was instant...
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Ginika has so much to look forward to. It's her last summer holiday before she goes to secondary school and, along with her best friend Alisha, she's prep...
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A story based on real-life. A narrative on harrowing events: The Holocaust. Fritz and Kurt is a story about a...
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I knew from the first few pages this was going to be a brilliant, captivating read. Stand and Deliver! by Philip Caveney is a thrilling a...
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Snot, Sneezes and Super-spreaders has everything a young person might want to know about viruses including how they replicate, spread and...
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I found this book absolutely fascinating; I was completely absorbed by it and couldn't put it down. To find out about the many attempts to reach the summi...
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This is a very good book to show that other people have feelings and just doing or wearing something does not mean you are different and that everyone sho...
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A story perfect for mystery fans set in Victorian Britain with a ghostly twist. The Whisperling is the story of Peggy who hides a secret...
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Evacuated away from London and his indifferent mother, Alfie Wright thrives in his new life with 'Auntie' Bell and her son, Ted, at Coombe Farm in Devon....
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The Notorious Scarlett and Browne, the second instalment of the exploits of Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne, finds them in a more refle...
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Tasting Light is a collection of ten science fiction short stories. It's a gripping, exciting and thought-provoking collection of stories...
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A move to New Jersey for 15 year old Harris and his family means a new school and a new start. Harris wants to reinvent himself as a typical teenager and...
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Warning... what you don't want to do is read this new release just before you go to sleep! You do not want to turn into your worst nightmare... From the v...
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I had high expectations for this book and I was not let down. I enjoyed reading this book so much that I could not stop thinking about the ending for hour...
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The events in This Can Never Not Be Real take place over the space of a few hours, creating a very intense experience for the reader. The...
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Molly Bell hates Christmas. When she was very young, her parents (aka The Brussel Shouts) wrote and released the world's cheesiest Christmas record, Love...
ReadingZone Authors of the Month
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Robert Tregoning
Writer and performer Robert Tregoning's debut picture book, Out of the Blue, celebrates di...
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Sarah Coyle
Sarah Coyle is the author of The Biggest Story, illustrated by Dan Taylor, and Once You're asleep, illustrated by Carolina R...
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Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's new picture book series, Frank and Bert, takes a warm and funny look at fr...
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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...
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Jon Agee
Award-winning author Jon Agee's latest picture book, Little Santa, tells us how Santa Claus came to be. His...
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Rico Hinson-King
Rico Hinson-King is just 11 years old. As a baby, he was taken into care and spen...
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Helen Mortimer
Helen Mortimer works as a freelance children's books editor and author. After many years working for major...
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Mini Grey
Award-winning author and illustrator Mini Grey has had many careers including working in theatre design, teaching and even a...
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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...
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Ada Grey
Ada spent several years working for design companies before deciding that she preferred doodling. She lives in Brighton with...
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Molly Potter
What Makes Me Do the Things I Do? is the latest in a series of books by Molly Potter addressing young child...
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Polly Faber and Melissa Crowton
Polly Faber's grandfather set up the publishing house Faber & Faber so she grew up reading, and read mo...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms and Ged Adamson share their new picture book, This is Not a Dinosaur, which fo...
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Steve Small
Animator Steve Small's latest picture book, Wellington's Big Day Out, follows a young elephant on a special...
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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...
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Olivia Hope
Olivia Hope is an Irish writer with a special love for children’s fiction. A former record-breaking athlete...
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Patrice Lawrence
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces her first picture book, Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush. Pat...
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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...
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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...
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Caryl Hart & Anastasia Suvorova
Discover how a real life story helped inspire this picture book, The Girl Who Planted Trees, about a young...
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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...
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Caryl Hart & Emily Hamilton
Thank you for the Little Things, the new picture book by Caryl Hart and Emily Ham...
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Stephanie Stansbie
Stephanie Stansbie's new picture book, This Girl Can Do Anything, is a bold and funny look...
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Casper Salmon
How to Count to One is the surprising and hilarious picture book by Casper Salmon, illustrated by Matt Hunt...
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Lu Fraser
One Camel Called Doug is a brilliant story about the joys of sometimes being alone, with some great countin...
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Karen Swann
Karen Swann and Padmacandra's new picture book, The Tale of the Whale, takes us on a journ...
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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...
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Catherine Jacob
The adventures in Catherine Jacob's new series, Puppy Club, were inspired by her family's new puppy. Catherine is a w...
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Jeremy Dronfield
Jeremy Dronfield has written many books about the lives and adventures of amazing people from history. Most...
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Fleur Hitchcock
Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Snowfall, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur b...
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Sarah Ann Juckes
Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people. The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by...
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Clare Weze
Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...
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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...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch (Welbeck), Skye McKenna's magical de...
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Kirsty Applebaum
Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess...
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Sarah Todd Taylor
Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble and A Spoonful of Sp...
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Katya Balen
Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - bu...
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Alastair Chisholm - Young Fiction
Alastair Chisholm's Dragon Storm (Nosy Crow Books) is an adventure-packed new series for younger readers. A...
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Lissa Evans
Lissa Evans's new book, Wished, is a magical story with some surprising adventures. Lissa still remembers writing her...
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Eve McDonnell
Eve is a children's author and artist who lives in the wilds of Co Wexford with her husband, twins, a dog and three cats. Sh...
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Rico Hinson-King
Rico Hinson-King is just 11 years old. As a baby, he was taken into care and spen...
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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...
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Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Tale of Truthwater Lake, is a time-slip adventure that tak...
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Laurel van der Linde
Author Laurel van der Linde began ballet class at age four. At 17, she toured with Oukhtomsky Ballet Classique and Los Angel...
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Isabel Thomas
Isabel Thomas is a science writer and the author of a galaxy of books for young audiences, including Moth:...
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Jasbinder Bilan
Jasbinder Bilan's debut novel Asha and the Spirit Bird won the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award and...
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Alexandra Page
Wishyouwas is Alexandra Page's first children's book, and draws on her early childhood years being airmailed between England...
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Kieran Larwood
The Treekeepers is the latest book by Kieran Larwood, author of The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and it'...
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Andy Shepherd
Andy Shepherd is a bestselling author of middle-grade fiction, including The Boy Who Grew Dragons series, and picture books....
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Linda Chapman
Linda Chapman's new series for young readers, Magic Keepers, takes us to a house filled with curios - and a magical secret!...
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Steven Butler
Steven Butler is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, performer and voice artist. His books have won the...
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Iona Rangeley
Iona Rangeley has just finished studying English at Oxford. She has wanted to be a writer since her debut n...
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Laura Ellen Andersen
When she's not trying to take over the world or fighting sock-stealing monsters, Laura Ell...
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Michelle Harrison
ReadingZone caught up with author Michelle Harrison to talk about black cats, magic and mischief in her fun series for young...
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Paul Westmoreland
A born and bred Londoner, Paul Westmoreland has been a professional writer for over 25 years, creating awar...
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MG Leonard
MG Leonard's bestselling series include Beetle Boy and Adventures on Trains - and her new...
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Chris Wormell
Chris Wormell's middle grade novels include The Lucky Bottle and The Magic Place, and he has created a host of picture books...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is the million-copy bestselling author of five children's novels and has won the Costa Ch...
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Lou Peacock
An editor, poetry anthologist and writer with over 25 years of experience in children's publishing, Lou Peacock</str...
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Thomas Taylor
The latest book in the Eerie-on-Sea series by Thomas Taylor, Festergrimm, takes us to the dark underworld of the town. Thoma...
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Anna Kemp
Into Goblyn Wood is a richly imagined world of fairies with a dark and sinister threat, and is Anna Kemp's first novel for c...
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Janelle McCurdy
Janelle is an author and fully-fledged gamer and Mia and the Lightcasters is her debut novel. She started writing at only 16...
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Carlie Sorosiak
Carlie Sorosiak writes books about magical summer camps, missing people, and the inner life of dogs. She grew up in North C...
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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...
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Catherine Doyle
Catherine Doyle grew up beside the Atlantic Ocean in the west of Ireland. Her love of reading began with great Irish myths a...
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Anna James
Anna James takes us back to the world of Pages & Co in her new book, Pages & Co: The Treehouse Library, the fifth bo...
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Nicola Penfold
In her books Where the World Turns Wild, Between Sea and Sky and her latest, Beyond the Frozen Horizon, Nicola Penfold explo...
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Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i</...
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Louie Stowell
Louie Stowell's series, Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good, brings trickster god Loki to Earth when he i...
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Nicola Morgan
Nicola Morgan, aka The Teenage Brain Woman, is an award-winning author and speaker on many areas of well-being and learning....
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MT Khan
MT Khan's debut novel, Nura and the Immortal Palace, is an exciting, magical adventure. MT Khan is a SFF wr...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle is the author of The Secret Starling and The Pear Affair. Her latest book, The Accidental Stowaway, is a myster...
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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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Larry Hayes
Larry Hayes talks about siblings, time travel, and his new book, How To Survive Time Travel</strong...
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Alex Cotter
Alex Cotter has worked hard all her life at daydreaming, while making a living from words: from bookselling at W.H.Smith and...
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Hana Tooke
Hana Tooke's new novel, The Midnighters, follows a group of children as they explore and discover new skills, at midnight.</...
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Jonathan Tulloch
Cuckoo Summer, a wartime story about evacuation and the effects of war, is Jonathan Tulloch's first book fo...
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Lola Morayo
Lola Morayo is the pen name for the creative partnership of writers Tólá Okogwu and Jasmine Richards. Both...
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Adam Baron
Adam Baron, author of Boy Underwater, has been an actor, comedian, journa...
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David Solomons
A Beginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is David Solomon's sixth novel for children and follows his bestsel...
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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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Sibeal Pounder
Sibéal Pounder is the bestselling author of Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids and her new series, Neon's Secret Universe</...
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Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Author and scientist Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Minibeasts is Wrong, illustrate...
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Fiona Longmuir
Looking for Emily by Fiona Longmuir is a mystery story about a secret museum, a missing girl and a forgotten piece of local...
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Elys Dolan
Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from E...
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Radiya Hafiza
Radiya Hafiza's new book, Rumaysa: Ever After, revisits the fairytale world of Rumaysa: A...
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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...
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Jeremy Dronfield
Jeremy Dronfield has written many books about the lives and adventures of amazing people from history. Most...
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Fleur Hitchcock
Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Snowfall, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur b...
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Sarah Ann Juckes
Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people. The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by...
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Clare Weze
Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...
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Sarah Todd Taylor
Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble and A Spoonful of Sp...
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Katya Balen
Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - bu...
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Eve McDonnell
Eve is a children's author and artist who lives in the wilds of Co Wexford with her husband, twins, a dog and three cats. Sh...
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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...
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Michelle Paver
Wolfbane, the ninth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, brings to a close the internationally bestselling ser...
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Kieran Larwood
The Treekeepers is the latest book by Kieran Larwood, author of The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and it'...
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Finbar Hawkins
Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...
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Matt Goodfellow
Matt Goodfellow is from Manchester. He spends his time writing and touring the UK and beyond - visiting schools, libraries a...
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MG Leonard
MG Leonard's bestselling series include Beetle Boy and Adventures on Trains - and her new...
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Thomas Taylor
The latest book in the Eerie-on-Sea series by Thomas Taylor, Festergrimm, takes us to the dark underworld of the town. Thoma...
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Janelle McCurdy
Janelle is an author and fully-fledged gamer and Mia and the Lightcasters is her debut novel. She started writing at only 16...
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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...
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Anna James
Anna James takes us back to the world of Pages & Co in her new book, Pages & Co: The Treehouse Library, the fifth bo...
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Nicola Penfold
In her books Where the World Turns Wild, Between Sea and Sky and her latest, Beyond the Frozen Horizon, Nicola Penfold explo...
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Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i</...
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Chris Vick
In between writing and teaching, Chris Vick works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity which has helped inspire The...
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Louie Stowell
Louie Stowell's series, Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good, brings trickster god Loki to Earth when he i...
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Nicola Morgan
Nicola Morgan, aka The Teenage Brain Woman, is an award-winning author and speaker on many areas of well-being and learning....
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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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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle is the author of The Secret Starling and The Pear Affair. Her latest book, The Accidental Stowaway, is a myster...
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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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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...
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Jo Simmons
Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...
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Alex Cotter
Alex Cotter has worked hard all her life at daydreaming, while making a living from words: from bookselling at W.H.Smith and...
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Hana Tooke
Hana Tooke's new novel, The Midnighters, follows a group of children as they explore and discover new skills, at midnight.</...
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Jonathan Tulloch
Cuckoo Summer, a wartime story about evacuation and the effects of war, is Jonathan Tulloch's first book fo...
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David Solomons
A Beginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is David Solomon's sixth novel for children and follows his bestsel...
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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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Jesse Q Sutanto
Jesse writes books for children and adults, and her first YA romcom, Well, That Was Unexpected, is now available. Jes...
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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...
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Darren Charlton
Darren Charlton's lifetime obsessions with the National Parks of America, horror, film music and 80s kids movies have all wo...
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Finbar Hawkins
Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...
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Rachel Burge
YA author Rachel Burge's new novel, Waking the Witch, follows her earlier YA books The Twisted Tre...
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Chris Vick
In between writing and teaching, Chris Vick works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity which has helped inspire The...
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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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Katharine and Elizabeth Corr
Katharine and Elizabeth Corr revisit the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in their new Daughter of Darkne...
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Catherine Barter
Catherine Barter's We Played with Fire has won the Young Quill's Award for historical fiction for her novel...
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Jo Simmons
Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...
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Tracy Darnton
Tracy Darnton's new tense YA page-turner, Ready or Not, follows a group of teenagers meeti...
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Sue Divin
Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a...
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the e...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch (Welbeck), Skye McKenna's magical de...
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Paul Westmoreland
A born and bred Londoner, Paul Westmoreland has been a professional writer for over 25 years, creating awar...
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Janelle McCurdy
Janelle is an author and fully-fledged gamer and Mia and the Lightcasters is her debut novel. She started writing at only 16...
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MT Khan
MT Khan's debut novel, Nura and the Immortal Palace, is an exciting, magical adventure. MT Khan is a SFF wr...
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Jonathan Tulloch
Cuckoo Summer, a wartime story about evacuation and the effects of war, is Jonathan Tulloch's first book fo...
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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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Fiona Longmuir
Looking for Emily by Fiona Longmuir is a mystery story about a secret museum, a missing girl and a forgotten piece of local...
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Robert Tregoning
Writer and performer Robert Tregoning's debut picture book, Out of the Blue, celebrates di...
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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...
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Catherine Jacob
The adventures in Catherine Jacob's new series, Puppy Club, were inspired by her family's new puppy. Catherine is a w...
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Jeremy Dronfield
Jeremy Dronfield has written many books about the lives and adventures of amazing people from history. Most...
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Fleur Hitchcock
Fleur Hitchcock's latest murder mystery novel, Murder at Snowfall, is now available and is her most sinister yet.... Fleur b...
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Sarah Ann Juckes
Sarah Ann Juckes writes books for young people. The Hunt for the Nightingale was her first novel for children, followed by...
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Clare Weze
Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. She writes for adults and children and...
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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...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch (Welbeck), Skye McKenna's magical de...
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Kirsty Applebaum
Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess...
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Sarah Todd Taylor
Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble and A Spoonful of Sp...
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Katya Balen
Katya Balen's The Light in Everything follows two children who must learn to live together in their new, blended family - bu...
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Alastair Chisholm - Young Fiction
Alastair Chisholm's Dragon Storm (Nosy Crow Books) is an adventure-packed new series for younger readers. A...
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Sarah Coyle
Sarah Coyle is the author of The Biggest Story, illustrated by Dan Taylor, and Once You're asleep, illustrated by Carolina R...
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Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros's new picture book series, Frank and Bert, takes a warm and funny look at fr...
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Lissa Evans
Lissa Evans's new book, Wished, is a magical story with some surprising adventures. Lissa still remembers writing her...
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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...
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Jon Agee
Award-winning author Jon Agee's latest picture book, Little Santa, tells us how Santa Claus came to be. His...
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Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick was a full time author who died unexpectedly in November 2022. He was 54. He grew up in Kent and had been l...
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Eve McDonnell
Eve is a children's author and artist who lives in the wilds of Co Wexford with her husband, twins, a dog and three cats. Sh...
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Rico Hinson-King
Rico Hinson-King is just 11 years old. As a baby, he was taken into care and spen...
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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...
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Emma Carroll
Emma Carroll's new historical fiction novel, The Tale of Truthwater Lake, is a time-slip adventure that tak...
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Michelle Paver
Wolfbane, the ninth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, brings to a close the internationally bestselling ser...
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Helen Mortimer
Helen Mortimer works as a freelance children's books editor and author. After many years working for major...
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Mini Grey
Award-winning author and illustrator Mini Grey has had many careers including working in theatre design, teaching and even a...
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Laurel van der Linde
Author Laurel van der Linde began ballet class at age four. At 17, she toured with Oukhtomsky Ballet Classique and Los Angel...
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Isabel Thomas
Isabel Thomas is a science writer and the author of a galaxy of books for young audiences, including Moth:...
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Jasbinder Bilan
Jasbinder Bilan's debut novel Asha and the Spirit Bird won the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award and...
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Jesse Q Sutanto
Jesse writes books for children and adults, and her first YA romcom, Well, That Was Unexpected, is now available. Jes...
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Alexandra Page
Wishyouwas is Alexandra Page's first children's book, and draws on her early childhood years being airmailed between England...
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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...
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Kieran Larwood
The Treekeepers is the latest book by Kieran Larwood, author of The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, and it'...
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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...
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Andy Shepherd
Andy Shepherd is a bestselling author of middle-grade fiction, including The Boy Who Grew Dragons series, and picture books....
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Linda Chapman
Linda Chapman's new series for young readers, Magic Keepers, takes us to a house filled with curios - and a magical secret!...
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Darren Charlton
Darren Charlton's lifetime obsessions with the National Parks of America, horror, film music and 80s kids movies have all wo...
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Finbar Hawkins
Finbar Hawkins's new novel Stone weaves ancient tales into a contemporary story. His debut novel, Witch, was shortlisted for...
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Steven Butler
Steven Butler is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, performer and voice artist. His books have won the...
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Iona Rangeley
Iona Rangeley has just finished studying English at Oxford. She has wanted to be a writer since her debut n...
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Laura Ellen Andersen
When she's not trying to take over the world or fighting sock-stealing monsters, Laura Ell...
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Michelle Harrison
ReadingZone caught up with author Michelle Harrison to talk about black cats, magic and mischief in her fun series for young...
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Matt Goodfellow
Matt Goodfellow is from Manchester. He spends his time writing and touring the UK and beyond - visiting schools, libraries a...
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Paul Westmoreland
A born and bred Londoner, Paul Westmoreland has been a professional writer for over 25 years, creating awar...
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MG Leonard
MG Leonard's bestselling series include Beetle Boy and Adventures on Trains - and her new...
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Ada Grey
Ada spent several years working for design companies before deciding that she preferred doodling. She lives in Brighton with...
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Chris Wormell
Chris Wormell's middle grade novels include The Lucky Bottle and The Magic Place, and he has created a host of picture books...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is the million-copy bestselling author of five children's novels and has won the Costa Ch...
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Lou Peacock
An editor, poetry anthologist and writer with over 25 years of experience in children's publishing, Lou Peacock</str...
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Thomas Taylor
The latest book in the Eerie-on-Sea series by Thomas Taylor, Festergrimm, takes us to the dark underworld of the town. Thoma...
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Anna Kemp
Into Goblyn Wood is a richly imagined world of fairies with a dark and sinister threat, and is Anna Kemp's first novel for c...
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Janelle McCurdy
Janelle is an author and fully-fledged gamer and Mia and the Lightcasters is her debut novel. She started writing at only 16...
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Carlie Sorosiak
Carlie Sorosiak writes books about magical summer camps, missing people, and the inner life of dogs. She grew up in North C...
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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...
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Catherine Doyle
Catherine Doyle grew up beside the Atlantic Ocean in the west of Ireland. Her love of reading began with great Irish myths a...
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Anna James
Anna James takes us back to the world of Pages & Co in her new book, Pages & Co: The Treehouse Library, the fifth bo...
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Nicola Penfold
In her books Where the World Turns Wild, Between Sea and Sky and her latest, Beyond the Frozen Horizon, Nicola Penfold explo...
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Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger is a journalist, anthologist and cookery writer. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i</...
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Rachel Burge
YA author Rachel Burge's new novel, Waking the Witch, follows her earlier YA books The Twisted Tre...
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Chris Vick
In between writing and teaching, Chris Vick works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity which has helped inspire The...
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Louie Stowell
Louie Stowell's series, Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good, brings trickster god Loki to Earth when he i...
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Nicola Morgan
Nicola Morgan, aka The Teenage Brain Woman, is an award-winning author and speaker on many areas of well-being and learning....
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MT Khan
MT Khan's debut novel, Nura and the Immortal Palace, is an exciting, magical adventure. MT Khan is a SFF wr...
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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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Molly Potter
What Makes Me Do the Things I Do? is the latest in a series of books by Molly Potter addressing young child...
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Katharine and Elizabeth Corr
Katharine and Elizabeth Corr revisit the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in their new Daughter of Darkne...
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Polly Faber and Melissa Crowton
Polly Faber's grandfather set up the publishing house Faber & Faber so she grew up reading, and read mo...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle is the author of The Secret Starling and The Pear Affair. Her latest book, The Accidental Stowaway, is a myster...
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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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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...
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Catherine Barter
Catherine Barter's We Played with Fire has won the Young Quill's Award for historical fiction for her novel...
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Jo Simmons
Jo Simmons is an author of funny fiction and her latest book, The Reluctant Vampire Queen, sees her writing funny books for...
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Larry Hayes
Larry Hayes talks about siblings, time travel, and his new book, How To Survive Time Travel</strong...
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Alex Cotter
Alex Cotter has worked hard all her life at daydreaming, while making a living from words: from bookselling at W.H.Smith and...
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Hana Tooke
Hana Tooke's new novel, The Midnighters, follows a group of children as they explore and discover new skills, at midnight.</...
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Jonathan Tulloch
Cuckoo Summer, a wartime story about evacuation and the effects of war, is Jonathan Tulloch's first book fo...
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Lola Morayo
Lola Morayo is the pen name for the creative partnership of writers Tólá Okogwu and Jasmine Richards. Both...
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Adam Baron
Adam Baron, author of Boy Underwater, has been an actor, comedian, journa...
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David Solomons
A Beginner’s Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is David Solomon's sixth novel for children and follows his bestsel...
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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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Sibeal Pounder
Sibéal Pounder is the bestselling author of Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids and her new series, Neon's Secret Universe</...
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Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Author and scientist Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Minibeasts is Wrong, illustrate...
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Fiona Longmuir
Looking for Emily by Fiona Longmuir is a mystery story about a secret museum, a missing girl and a forgotten piece of local...
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Elys Dolan
Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from E...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms and Ged Adamson share their new picture book, This is Not a Dinosaur, which fo...
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Steve Small
Animator Steve Small's latest picture book, Wellington's Big Day Out, follows a young elephant on a special...
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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...
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Olivia Hope
Olivia Hope is an Irish writer with a special love for children’s fiction. A former record-breaking athlete...
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Radiya Hafiza
Radiya Hafiza's new book, Rumaysa: Ever After, revisits the fairytale world of Rumaysa: A...
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Patrice Lawrence
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces her first picture book, Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush. Pat...
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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...
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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...
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Sue Divin
Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer and peace worker, originally from Armagh in the North of Ireland. With a...
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Caryl Hart & Anastasia Suvorova
Discover how a real life story helped inspire this picture book, The Girl Who Planted Trees, about a young...
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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...
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Caryl Hart & Emily Hamilton
Thank you for the Little Things, the new picture book by Caryl Hart and Emily Ham...
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Stephanie Stansbie
Stephanie Stansbie's new picture book, This Girl Can Do Anything, is a bold and funny look...
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Casper Salmon
How to Count to One is the surprising and hilarious picture book by Casper Salmon, illustrated by Matt Hunt...
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Lu Fraser
One Camel Called Doug is a brilliant story about the joys of sometimes being alone, with some great countin...
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Karen Swann
Karen Swann and Padmacandra's new picture book, The Tale of the Whale, takes us on a journ...
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari's powerful new book, When Shadows Fall, weaves together themes of mental health, friendship and the e...
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William Hussey
William Hussey's The Outrage, set in a future England that has become a fascist state, is published this mo...
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Pippa Curnick
Pippa Curnick has always written her own stories and loves illustrating, so it's no surprise that she has now written and il...
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Jessie James & Tamara Anegon
Tamara Anegon attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. Following this, she studied for a masters d...
