Latest Book Reviews
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Who Rules the Rockpool? is a wonderfully colourful picture book with cartoon style illustrations. The speech bubbles throughout add humou...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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What an extraordinary book. Entirely wordless, The Tree and the River looks at a particular place in space and time. A verdant landscape,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse is an absolute block buster of a picture book. The rhythmical rhyming text guides you through...
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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...
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Remember Lemoney Snicket and his Series of Unfortunate Events? The Wilderness has the same sort of tone and approach, as an unseen narrat...
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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...
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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...
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Who doesn't love a beautiful story, brimming with magic? The author of The Wishkeeper's Apprentice, Rach...
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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...
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In Pirates of Darksea, Christopher Reid longs to go on an adventure with Captain Thorne O'Malley aboard his pirate ship, the Stolen Sunri...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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!...
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A Cure Ever After is the sequel to Once Upon a Fever (shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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Mariajo Ilustrajo
Award-winning author and illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo introduces her new picture book, I Love Books, on ReadingZone. <p...
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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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Jarvis
Jarvis, author of The Boy With Flowers In His Hair, shares his new picture book, Thank You, with ReadingZone. Jarvis's earli...
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James Carter
James Carter introduces Once Upon a Big Idea, the latest in his poetry books exploring ideas and science ab...
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Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif
Sufiya Ahmed and illustrator Hazem Asif introduce their new picture book, The Best Eid Ever. </p...
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Matty Long
Matty Long creates picture books including Who Rules the Rockpool?, the Super Happy Magic Forest series, Turbo Bunnies, and...
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Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate
Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...
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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...
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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...
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Jumana Rahman
Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to pr...
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Chloe Savage
Chloe Savage was born and raised in Stevenage. She has a First Class BA Honours in...
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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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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...
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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...
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Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin
Craig Barr-Green writes picture books, non-fiction titles and theatre productions for children. He lectures...
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Stephanie Taylor is a British-born author of Jamaican heritage. Married to Michael, she has two amazing gro...
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Sam Copeland
Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a shock to him. He is f...
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Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton
Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...
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Nishani Reed lives on a steep hill, which means that her garden is taller than her house! She spends a lot...
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Kate Pankhurst
Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...
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Jennie Cashman Wilson
Becoming Brave is Jennie Cashman-Wilson's first children's book. Her background is in arts fundraising and...
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Rhiannon Findlay
Rhiannon Findlay is a rising star in the world of children's picture books, whose talent for rhyme and imaginative story-tel...
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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...
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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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Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate
Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate's new picture book series, My Small World, encourag...
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Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...
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Deborah Chancellor
Deborah Chancellor has written over a hundred books for children, from toddlers to teenagers. She has tackled a broad range...
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Sally Anne Garland
Sally Anne Garland grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, aged four,...
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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...
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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...
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Rachel Morrisroe
Rachel Morrisroe is a new voice in the world of rhyming picture books. She is working with leading pi...
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Piu DasGupta
Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...
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Sinéad O'Hart
Lola and Larch is Sinéad O'Hart's first chapter book series for young readers. Her books for older readers include...
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Justin Somper
Justin Somper, author of Vampirates, introduces his brand new pirate series, Pirate Academy! Justin grew up in St Alb...
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Liz Flanagan
Liz Flanagan, an award-winning author who writes about strange worlds and fantastical creatures, joins ReadingZone to introd...
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James Nicol
James Nicol, author of The Apprentice Witch series, tells ReadingZone about his new eco fantasy, The Cloud Thief. Jam...
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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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Christopher Edge
Black Hole Cinema Club, Christopher Edge's latest novel, is a love story to movies. Dive into an immersive blockbuster exper...
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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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Gabriel Dylan
For readers who like their adventures laced with a dash of horror.... Look out for Gabriel Dylan's Shiver Point series!...
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Guy Bass & Pete Williamson
The bestselling Stitch Head series is getting a new look - as a graphic novel! Author Guy Bass and illustr...
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Ruth Millington
Ruth Millington is a Birmingham-based art critic and writer whose has now written a book to inspire children as artists; Thi...
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Alex Bell
Alex Bell introduces her magical new middle grade novel, The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts, the latest in a range of nove...
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Bex Hogan
Bronte Tempestra is author Bex Hogan's first young fiction series and it's packed with adventure, friendship and magical cre...
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Ross Welford
Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows su...
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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...
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Padraig Kenny
Padraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a...
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Peter Brown
Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As...
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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...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...
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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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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...
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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
Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism. <...
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Katya Balen
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...
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Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny,...
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Derek Keilty
Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They h...
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Ben Davis
Ben Davis is an award-winning children's author whose books include <a href="/books/the-private-blog-of-joe...
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Helen Cooper
Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup...
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Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs
Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...
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Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...
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Matt Brown
Matt Brown is an author and broadcaster based in the UK. His books for children including FCBG Children's B...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...
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Sarah Todd Taylor
Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble, A Spoonful of Spyin...
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Annabelle Sami
Annabelle Sami is a writer and performer. She grew up next to the sea on the sout...
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Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Who Let the Words Out is his latest collection. Jos...
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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...
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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...
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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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Kate Pankhurst
Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...
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Tania Unsworth
Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...
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Paige Braddock
Comic creator Paige Braddock introduces her new children's graphic novel, Peanut, Butter and Crackers. Paige is the Chief Cr...
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Hiba Noor Khan
Hiba Noor Khan is a writer and activist based in the north of England. Her academ...
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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...
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Andrew Jennings
Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja, and now Spelling Ninja. An...
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James Burks
Animator and graphic novel creator James Burks introduces his action-packed series, Agent 9. James is himself a master of di...
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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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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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Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley
Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, fea...
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Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a...
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Steven Lenton
Steven Lenton, creator of the Genie and Teeny series for young readers, works from his studio in B...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...
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Andy Shepherd
Andy Shepherd is a bestselling author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series, and picture books. She lives near Cambridge with h...
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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...
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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...
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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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Sophie Cameron
Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...
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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...
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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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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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Roland Chambers
Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and...
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Andy Sagar
Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for...
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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...
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Kiyash Monsef
Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...
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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
Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...
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Nizrana Farook
The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...
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Misa Sugiura
Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...
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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...
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Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024. He grew up i...
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David Owen
Having worked as a freelance games journalist and taught on a BA Creative Writing course for three years, David Owen's debut...
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Philip Reeve has been writing stories since he was five years old but Mortal Engines was the first to be pu...
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Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding is an innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, who has built up a large and dedicat...
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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...
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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...
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Iszi Lawrence
Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...
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Gill Lewis
After realising her childhood dream of becoming a vet, Gill worked in the UK and overseas, everywhere from Africa to the Arc...
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Alasdair Beckett-King
Comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King's first book for children is the hilarious murder-mystery Montgom...
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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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Colm Field
Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happi...
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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...
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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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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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Leah Mohammed
Leah Mohammed's debut book for younger readers follows Luma who discovers a young dragon in her garden. </p...
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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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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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Kirsty Applebaum
Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess...
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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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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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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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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
Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...
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Sarah Crossan
Sarah Crossan introduces her powerful new verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury YA). Sa...
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Liz Flanagan
Liz Flanagan, an award-winning author who writes about strange worlds and fantastical creatures, joins ReadingZone to introd...
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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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Christopher Edge
Black Hole Cinema Club, Christopher Edge's latest novel, is a love story to movies. Dive into an immersive blockbuster exper...
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Nora Dasnes
Nora Dåsnes is an author and illustrator. Cross My Heart and Never Lie is her debut as a writer and illustr...
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Sylvia Bishop
Sylvia Bishop's new book, On Silver Tides, is her first novel for teenagers. Sylvia spent an entire childhood reading fictio...
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Gabriel Dylan
For readers who like their adventures laced with a dash of horror.... Look out for Gabriel Dylan's Shiver Point series!...
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Tim Hall
The inspiration to write about Robin Hood struck Tim Hall while trekking in the 'primal and dangerous landscape' of the Amaz...
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Ross Welford
Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows su...
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Candy Gourlay
Candy Gourlay is of Filipino heritage, and was a journalist before becoming an author. Her novels Tall Story (her debut) and...
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Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent
Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...
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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...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...
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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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Lisa Williamson
Lisa Williamson grew up in Nottingham, studied drama and worked as an actor on stage and TV. Her first nove...
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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...
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism. <...
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Katya Balen
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...
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Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs
Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...
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Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...
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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...
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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...
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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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Tania Unsworth
Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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Sophie Cameron
Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...
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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...
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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
Skye Melki-Wegner is a YA and children's fantasy author and dinosaur lover. Over the years, she has worked everywhere from a...
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Kiyash Monsef
Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...
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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
Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...
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Nizrana Farook
The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...
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Misa Sugiura
Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...
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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...
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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...
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Iszi Lawrence
Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...
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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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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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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...
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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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Malcolm Duffy
Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sarah Crossan
Sarah Crossan introduces her powerful new verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury YA). Sa...
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Ginny Myers Sain
Ginny Myers Sain tells ReadingZone what inspired her latest page-turning YA novel, One Last Breath. ...
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Tim Hall
The inspiration to write about Robin Hood struck Tim Hall while trekking in the 'primal and dangerous landscape' of the Amaz...
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Shade Lapite
Shade Lapite is British-Nigerian and has drawn on her heritage to create the world of Goddess Crown. She spent a significant...
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Kelly McCaughrain
Kelly McCaughrain lives in Belfast where she works with disabled students in further education. Her debut novel, Fly...
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Krystal Sutherland
Krystal Sutherland is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Hollow, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares a...
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Candy Gourlay
Candy Gourlay is of Filipino heritage, and was a journalist before becoming an author. Her novels Tall Story (her debut) and...
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Rhianna Pratchett & Gabrielle Kent
Rhianna Pratchett was a journalist before moving into the video games industry, writing on titles including...
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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
Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of...
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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
Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media. Sa...
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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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Rachel Burge
YA author Rachel Burge's new novel, Waking the Witch, follows her earlier YA books The Twisted Tre...
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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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Malcolm Duffy
Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...
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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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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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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
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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Piu DasGupta
Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...
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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...
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Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley
Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, fea...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...
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Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...
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Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding is an innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, who has built up a large and dedicat...
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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...
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Alasdair Beckett-King
Comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King's first book for children is the hilarious murder-mystery Montgom...
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Colm Field
Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happi...
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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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Piu DasGupta
Our debut author of the month Piu DasGupta introduces her novel, Secrets of the Snakestone...
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Sinéad O'Hart
Lola and Larch is Sinéad O'Hart's first chapter book series for young readers. Her books for older readers include...
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Justin Somper
Justin Somper, author of Vampirates, introduces his brand new pirate series, Pirate Academy! Justin grew up in St Alb...
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Mariajo Ilustrajo
Award-winning author and illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo introduces her new picture book, I Love Books, on ReadingZone. <p...
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Sarah Crossan
Sarah Crossan introduces her powerful new verse novel, Where the Heart Should Be (Bloomsbury YA). Sa...
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Ginny Myers Sain
Ginny Myers Sain tells ReadingZone what inspired her latest page-turning YA novel, One Last Breath. ...
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Liz Flanagan
Liz Flanagan, an award-winning author who writes about strange worlds and fantastical creatures, joins ReadingZone to introd...
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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
James Nicol, author of The Apprentice Witch series, tells ReadingZone about his new eco fantasy, The Cloud Thief. Jam...
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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
Jarvis, author of The Boy With Flowers In His Hair, shares his new picture book, Thank You, with ReadingZone. Jarvis's earli...
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Christopher Edge
Black Hole Cinema Club, Christopher Edge's latest novel, is a love story to movies. Dive into an immersive blockbuster exper...
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James Carter
James Carter introduces Once Upon a Big Idea, the latest in his poetry books exploring ideas and science ab...
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Nora Dasnes
Nora Dåsnes is an author and illustrator. Cross My Heart and Never Lie is her debut as a writer and illustr...
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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
Sylvia Bishop's new book, On Silver Tides, is her first novel for teenagers. Sylvia spent an entire childhood reading fictio...
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Gabriel Dylan
For readers who like their adventures laced with a dash of horror.... Look out for Gabriel Dylan's Shiver Point series!...
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Sufiya Ahmed & Hazem Asif
Sufiya Ahmed and illustrator Hazem Asif introduce their new picture book, The Best Eid Ever. </p...
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Guy Bass & Pete Williamson
The bestselling Stitch Head series is getting a new look - as a graphic novel! Author Guy Bass and illustr...
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Ruth Millington
Ruth Millington is a Birmingham-based art critic and writer whose has now written a book to inspire children as artists; Thi...
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Alex Bell
Alex Bell introduces her magical new middle grade novel, The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts, the latest in a range of nove...
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Bex Hogan
Bronte Tempestra is author Bex Hogan's first young fiction series and it's packed with adventure, friendship and magical cre...
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Tim Hall
The inspiration to write about Robin Hood struck Tim Hall while trekking in the 'primal and dangerous landscape' of the Amaz...
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Ross Welford
Ross Welford worked as a business journalist before becoming a freelance writer and television producer, working on shows su...
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Matty Long
Matty Long creates picture books including Who Rules the Rockpool?, the Super Happy Magic Forest series, Turbo Bunnies, and...
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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...
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Padraig Kenny
Padraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a...
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Shade Lapite
Shade Lapite is British-Nigerian and has drawn on her heritage to create the world of Goddess Crown. She spent a significant...
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Kelly McCaughrain
Kelly McCaughrain lives in Belfast where she works with disabled students in further education. Her debut novel, Fly...
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Krystal Sutherland
Krystal Sutherland is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Hollow, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares a...
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Anna Wilson & Harry Woodgate
Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...
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Peter Brown
Peter has always loved telling stories and grew up telling stories by drawing characters and scenes from his imagination. As...
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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...
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Candy Gourlay
Candy Gourlay is of Filipino heritage, and was a journalist before becoming an author. Her novels Tall Story (her debut) and...
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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...
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Jumana Rahman
Jumana Nikita Rahman is a self-proclaimed "fun mom" and learned to ride a bike very late in life just to pr...
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Chloe Savage
Chloe Savage was born and raised in Stevenage. She has a First Class BA Honours in...
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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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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...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf <br /...
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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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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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Lisa Williamson
Lisa Williamson grew up in Nottingham, studied drama and worked as an actor on stage and TV. Her first nove...
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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...
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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
Author and campaigner Yassmin Abdel-Magied talks to ReadingZone about her book Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism. <...
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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny picture books, and stories for children about magic, dragons and folklore. Em...
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Barry Timms & Ged Adamson
Barry Timms grew up in Cornwall. He spent his early years mending pop-up books brought home from the librar...
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Katya Balen
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behavi...
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Laura Mucha trained as a lawyer and is now an award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny,...
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Derek Keilty
Author Derek Keilty lives just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland with his Canadian wife and twin teenage daughters. They h...
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Ben Davis
Ben Davis is an award-winning children's author whose books include <a href="/books/the-private-blog-of-joe...
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Helen Cooper
Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup...
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Carlie Sorosiak - A World of Dogs
Carlie Sorosiak lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and her American Dingo, Dany. A bestselling chi...
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Craig Barr-Green & Francis Martin
Craig Barr-Green writes picture books, non-fiction titles and theatre productions for children. He lectures...
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Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor introduces his latest and possibly last Eerie-on-Sea adventure, Mermedusa. Will the mysteries of Eerie-on-Sea...
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Matt Brown
Matt Brown is an author and broadcaster based in the UK. His books for children including FCBG Children's B...
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Robin Scott-Elliot
Scottish born author Robin Scott-Elliot's latest historical fiction novel, Sweet Skies, takes us to post-wa...
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Sarah Todd Taylor
Join Alice Éclair in her extraordinary spying adventures, A Recipe for Trouble, A Spoonful of Spyin...
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Stephanie Taylor is a British-born author of Jamaican heritage. Married to Michael, she has two amazing gro...
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Annabelle Sami
Annabelle Sami is a writer and performer. She grew up next to the sea on the sout...
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Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is a poet, performer and workshop leader; Who Let the Words Out is his latest collection. Jos...
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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...
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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...
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Sam Copeland
Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a shock to him. He is f...
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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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Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton
Tracey Corderoy grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemica...
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Nishani Reed lives on a steep hill, which means that her garden is taller than her house! She spends a lot...
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Kate Pankhurst
Kate Pankhurst, bestselling author and illustrator of the Fantastically Great Women books, introdu...
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Tania Unsworth
Tania Unsworth's new book, Nowhere Island, explores how four children survive on an island hidden from sight. Tania spent he...
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Judith Eagle
Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Stolen Songbird, about a famous picture and three children...
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Paige Braddock
Comic creator Paige Braddock introduces her new children's graphic novel, Peanut, Butter and Crackers. Paige is the Chief Cr...
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Hiba Noor Khan
Hiba Noor Khan is a writer and activist based in the north of England. Her academ...
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Jennie Cashman Wilson
Becoming Brave is Jennie Cashman-Wilson's first children's book. Her background is in arts fundraising and...
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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...
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Rhiannon Findlay
Rhiannon Findlay is a rising star in the world of children's picture books, whose talent for rhyme and imaginative story-tel...
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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
Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of...
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Andrew Jennings
Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja, and now Spelling Ninja. An...
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James Burks
Animator and graphic novel creator James Burks introduces his action-packed series, Agent 9. James is himself a master of di...
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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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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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Davina Tijani & Adam Douglas-Bagley
Davina writes speculative and fantastical stories and her new series, Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka, fea...
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Nick Crumpton & Gavin Scott
Dr Nick Crumpton's new book, Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong gives us a...
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Sarah Hagger-Holt
Sarah Hagger-Holt is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author. Her debut novel for childre...
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Steven Lenton
Steven Lenton, creator of the Genie and Teeny series for young readers, works from his studio in B...
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Skye McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...
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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...
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Andy Shepherd
Andy Shepherd is a bestselling author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series, and picture books. She lives near Cambridge with h...
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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...
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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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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...
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Caryl Hart & Harry Woodgate
Caryl Hart and Harry Woodgate's new picture book series, My Small World, encourag...
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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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Sophie Cameron
Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a lyrical story about language, communication and poetry. Sophie is a YA and...
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Sara Barnard
Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes is a powerful YA novel exploring grief, toxic fame and social media. Sa...
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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...
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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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Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...
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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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Roland Chambers
Roland Chambers talks to ReadingZone about his new children's book, The Rage of the Sea Witch. Roland is an author and...
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Deborah Chancellor
Deborah Chancellor has written over a hundred books for children, from toddlers to teenagers. She has tackled a broad range...
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Sally Anne Garland
Sally Anne Garland grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. According to her parents, her first really good drawing, aged four,...
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Andy Sagar
Andy Sagar previously worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school and has just finished studying for...
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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...
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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...
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Rachel Greener
Rachel Greener is a children's books editor from London who has written and edited fiction, non-fiction and...
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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...
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Kiyash Monsef
Kiyash Monsef grew up in northern California in a house on the slope of a forested ravine, with his parents, his Ir...
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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
Cath Howe's new book, My Life on Fire, follows what happens when a child's home and possessions are destroy...
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Nizrana Farook
The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also inc...
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Misa Sugiura
Misa Sugiura's ancestors include a poet, a priestess, a samurai, and a stowaway. She writes contemporary young adult and mid...
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Rachel Morrisroe
Rachel Morrisroe is a new voice in the world of rhyming picture books. She is working with leading pi...
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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...
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Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024. He grew up i...
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David Owen
Having worked as a freelance games journalist and taught on a BA Creative Writing course for three years, David Owen's debut...
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Philip Reeve has been writing stories since he was five years old but Mortal Engines was the first to be pu...
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Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding is an innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, who has built up a large and dedicat...
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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...
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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...
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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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Iszi Lawrence
Iszi Lawrence is a comedian, podcaster and history presenter and she also writes children's books, including Blackbe...
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Gill Lewis
After realising her childhood dream of becoming a vet, Gill worked in the UK and overseas, everywhere from Africa to the Arc...
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Alasdair Beckett-King
Comedian and writer Alasdair Beckett-King's first book for children is the hilarious murder-mystery Montgom...
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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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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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Colm Field
Colm Field gets called 'Colin' a lot. He lives in London with his three kids and his partner. Colm is happi...
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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...
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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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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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Leah Mohammed
Leah Mohammed's debut book for younger readers follows Luma who discovers a young dragon in her garden. </p...
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Malcolm Duffy
Malcolm Duffy, Geordie born and bred, is a former creative director of Comic Relief who now writes contemporary novels for 1...
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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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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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Kirsty Applebaum
Kirsty Applebaum talks to ReadingZone about her new series of books for younger readers, which begins with Princess...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Katharine and Elizabeth Corr
Katharine and Elizabeth Corr revisit the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in their new Daughter of Darkne...
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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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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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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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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...