Latest Book Reviews
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The title of this book, No Matter What . . . We All Belong, is such an important message and needs to be shared with everyone. This is su...
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This wonderful board book combines peep-through pages throughout and an irresistibly, squishy shiny rainbow at the end, when delivering this crucial messa...
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The Bear, the Book and the Blanket is a sweet picture book about getting baby settled and ready for bed where ten cute bunnies help to fi...
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Hooray! For Hoppy is a really interesting take on a children's sensory book. It gives us insight into the sounds, sights, smells and feel...
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Is your child a fan of the 'You Choose' collection? If so, they will be very fond of Pick-A-Chick, illustrated by Nia Gould. We begin wit...
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As parents we have all been there; it is baby's bedtime and all of the comforters are missing! Where is bear, their book and their blanket? Nothing can b...
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If I had a crocodile is part of the series If I had a ... published by Thames and Hudson. The front cover has a huge cro...
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Meet Ruby. Some days she is brave, bouncy and chat-chat-chatty. Other days, she is not - and that's OK! She knows what she wants, and she does things her...
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Marvellous Margot is a beautifully illustrated book which follows Margot’s journey through the town to her friend Oscar's house. On the w...
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The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is a hilarious adventure tale of rivals stoat and goat, who battle it out for a place in a boat! With...
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In a climate where mental health and talking about you feelings is in the forefront of everything that we do, this wonderfully written story is the perfec...
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This HOLE-ARIOUS story will have children laughing from the very beginning. Will they identify with Gus the Goat, who loves guessing and rhyming, or Mole...
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Grandpa and the Kingfisher is a beautifully illustrated book which follows a little girl and her grandfather over the course of a year al...
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Fairytale Ninjas is the amazing concept of Paula Harrison. Before launching a successful writing career, Paula was a Primary school teacher. Her years tea...
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The Chalk Garden is a really lovely picture book, one that supports giving space to wild planting and which encourages children to observ...
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Sunny Side Up is a gorgeous book with hidden delights and expanding surprises. This book explores wellbeing and supports feelings and emo...
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Be prepared to giggle, laugh out loud and support Mavis Mole in Holey Moley by Bethan Clarke and Anders Frang. In Holey Moley we meet Gus...
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If you love rhyming books, The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is another clever, funny book by Em Lynas and Matt Hunt. The main characte...
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Clem is part of a mudlarking club along with her friends Ash and Zara, looking for treasure on the banks of the Thames. Everything the club finds gets tak...
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Clem and her best friends Ash and Zara are mudlarkers. Along with the other members of the Thames and Tide Club, they spend their weekends searching the r...
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How to be a Detective and Other Crime Fighting Jobs is from a new series of books all about amazing and incredible jobs. The book is set...
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A very interesting read! How to be a Detective and Other Crime-Fighting Jobs is a non-fiction book all about what life is like if you are...
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As a fan of Katya Balen's writing, I was keen to see what she can do for younger readers and The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City is an appealing, fu...
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Forest School Handbook is a fantastic forest school guide written by two absolute experts in bringing practical learning, fun activities...
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Growing Up: An Inclusive Guide to Puberty and Your Changing Body is the perfect book to share with developing youngsters as they navigate...
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Until the Road Ends is the story of Beau, a dog from the streets, who is saved by a girl called Peggy. When war breaks out, the two are s...
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Making A Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins is the perfect resource to use in supporting children with their learning of...
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Gan - Princess Ganzorig - has a real taste for adventure and when one of her beloved uncles, King Temur, falls dangerously ill, she sets off in her sky-sh...
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When Peggy saves a stray, she and Beau, the dog, become inseparable. However, they are forced apart by the war as Peggy and her brother, Wilf, are evacuat...
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Mimi has been brought up by her grandparents since she was a baby. Now they all live together in a flat over a bowls club in North-East England. Mimi ador...
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Most teenagers work hard to 'fit in', knowing that there is nothing worse than becoming an obvious target for the group of boys or girls in school who lik...
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Every Word A Lie is a murder mystery that is full of twists and turns. It is fast-paced and really builds the tension. It is also a bit o...
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Attending prestigious Webber Academy in New York, scholarship student Waverly is used to keeping a low profile and fitting in. Academic but with parents i...
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Aidan is thirteen and uneasy - about his crowded family, about how people at school might think of him and, most of all, uneasy about himself. He thinks t...
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Let's Play Murder has to be the first book in a while to have an ending I didn't expect. Well written and exciting, I could easily get ba...
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The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars is an absolute stunner! Told through the eyes of Spartan princess, Gor...
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Mindwalker is a sci-fi debut novel for 2023. The author has packed it full of action and twists and turns making it a fast-paced read. 18...
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Someone is obsessed with Mia Hawkins… I normally offer a summary of the book before a review, but this is one that I am not going to do that for in case I...
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Emmy's left devastated and confused when her famous sister, Lizzie Beck, takes her own life. Faced with hostile media, distant parents, and her own overwh...
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I'll be honest... I am no gamer. In fact, my experiences of online gaming are limited to watching others interact with those brightly coloured pixels that...
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Reimaginings of the Greek myths are currently enjoying an explosion in popularity, fuelled in part by Booktok. This debut novel, Lies We Sing to t...
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Every Gift is a Curse is the final book in the supernatural YA series All our Hidden Gifts; an...
ReadingZone Authors of the Month
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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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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny books and her latest picture book The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is a hi...
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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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Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...
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Ged Adamson: Ged was born in Liverpool and as a child he was obsessed with drawing, listening to music and...
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John Bond
John Bond studied illustration at Kingston University and worked for seven years at an award-winni...
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Laura Baker
Laura Baker is the author of all sorts of books for children. She has written about feelings, farm...
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Thomas Flintham
Thomas Flintham has always loved to draw and tell stories, and now that is his job! He grew up in Lincoln, England, and stud...
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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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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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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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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 McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hannah Foley
Hannah Foley's latest novel, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, is a du...
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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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Natasha Farrant
Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the pa...
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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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Jarvis
Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories is author and illustrator Jarvis's first chapter book. His picture books include...
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Rachel Chivers Khoo
Rachel Chivers Khoo was born in Belfast and spent most of her childhood sheltering in her local library fro...
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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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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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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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Thomas Flintham
Thomas Flintham has always loved to draw and tell stories, and now that is his job! He grew up in Lincoln, England, and stud...
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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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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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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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Elys Dolan
Rex Dinosaur in Disguise is the brilliantly funny novel for younger readers from E...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hannah Foley
Hannah Foley's latest novel, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, is a du...
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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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Natasha Farrant
Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the pa...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...
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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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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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Rachel Chivers Khoo
Rachel Chivers Khoo was born in Belfast and spent most of her childhood sheltering in her local library fro...
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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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Robert Tregoning
Writer and performer Robert Tregoning's debut picture book, Out of the Blue, celebrates di...
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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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Bethan Clarke has been a story maker-upper ever since she could write them back t...
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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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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 McKenna
Look out for witches, goblins and a village with secrets in Hedgewitch, Skye McKenna's magical debut novel,...
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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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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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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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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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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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Em Lynas
Em Lynas loves to write funny books and her latest picture book The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat is a hi...
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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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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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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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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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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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Hannah Foley
Hannah Foley's latest novel, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, is a du...
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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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Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson lives in Cornwall in the UK with her husband and dog, cat, ducks and a tortoise called Hercules...
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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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Ged Adamson: Ged was born in Liverpool and as a child he was obsessed with drawing, listening to music and...
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John Bond
John Bond studied illustration at Kingston University and worked for seven years at an award-winni...
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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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Laura Baker
Laura Baker is the author of all sorts of books for children. She has written about feelings, farm...
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Natasha Farrant
Natasha Farrant has worked in children's publishing for almost 20 years, running her own literary scouting agency for the pa...
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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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Jarvis
Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories is author and illustrator Jarvis's first chapter book. His picture books include...
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Rachel Chivers Khoo
Rachel Chivers Khoo was born in Belfast and spent most of her childhood sheltering in her local library fro...
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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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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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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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Thomas Flintham
Thomas Flintham has always loved to draw and tell stories, and now that is his job! He grew up in Lincoln, England, and stud...
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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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Robert Tregoning
Writer and performer Robert Tregoning's debut picture book, Out of the Blue, celebrates di...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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...
