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Finbar Hawkins

Finbar Hawkins

Finbar Hawkins's novel Ghost weaves ancient tales of haunting and evil with an eerie contemporary story. He tells ReadingZone what inspir More...

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Finding happiness in the winter blues: Anna Zoe Quirke's Sad Girl Hours

Finding happiness in the winter blues: Anna Zoe Quirke's Sad Girl Hours

More about Sad Girl Hours:  Saffron struggles with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and is drea More...

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Film Production

Film Production

What is a film producer? Sophie tells us what the day-to-day job of a film producer involves, what she loves most More...

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Latest Books & Extracts

  • Red as Royal Blood

    The Inheritance Games gets the royal treatment in this original thriller that combines courtly intrigue, succession drama, and romance.</

  • Ask Me Anything

    A gorgeously sassy campus-set romcom, where Mary-Elizabeth sorts out other students' love-lives as the university magazine's agony aunt.

  • Ghost: A chilling story of the supernatural from the author of Witch

    Marie has dropped out of art college and is staying with her aunt for a while. But the woods nearby are hiding something. Marie can feel

  • Witchlore

    Romance, magic, and a love story to raise the dead....

  • Owl King: Faery Realms series: The darkly enchanting YA fantasy

    A dark, captivating 12+/YA tale of deception and survival, set in the Realm of Never Moon where faeries live in fear of the Owl King.

  • Lie or Die, Blood Moon

    Kass barely survived reality-TV show Lie or Die, but now she's been lured to a castle where perilous challenges await in the most extreme

Featured Authors

  • Finbar Hawkins

    Finbar Hawkins: Finbar Hawkins's novel Ghost weaves ancient tales of haunting and evil with an eerie contemporary story. He tells ReadingZone what inspir

  • Freddie Kölsch introduces her folk horror YA novel, Empty Heaven

    Freddie Kölsch introduces her folk horror YA novel, Empty Heaven: Freddie Kölsch explores identity, gender and how societal norms keep the true monsters hidden in her new YA folk horror novel, Em

  • Emma Shevah introduces her compelling new YA novel, My Name is Jodie Jones

    Emma Shevah introduces her compelling new YA novel, My Name is Jodie Jones: ReadingZone caught up with Emma Shevah to explore the inspiration for her stunning YA debut, My Name is Jodie Jones.

  • Exploring Rachael Davis-Featherstone's moody thriller, Oxford Blood

    Exploring Rachael Davis-Featherstone's moody thriller, Oxford Blood: Enter the dark academia of Oxford Blood, Rachael Davis-Featherstone's suspenseful YA debut, with a murder at its heart. . .</stro

  • Kathryn Clark introduces her YA debut, Things I Learned While I Was Dead

    Kathryn Clark introduces her YA debut, Things I Learned While I Was Dead: Kathryn Clark explores consent and medical ethics in her dystopian debut, Things I Learned While I was Dead, and tells ReadingZon

  • Kenechi Udogu

    Kenechi Udogu: Kenechi Udogu introduces her eco science-fiction adventure, Augmented, set in a near-future, climate-challenged London.

Your Reviews

  • Sisters in the Wind: From the award-winning author of Firekeeper's Daughter

    Tanja

    Boulley revisits key characters from her New York Times Bestseller Firekeeper's Daughter five years in...

  • Witchlore

    Linda

    Witchlore, a debut YA novel, is full of magic, folklore creatures, spells and witches . . . The story follows Orlando or 'Lando' ( as the...

  • Furysong

    Jacqueline

    War has come to Callipolis and enemies are closing in. Griff is on death row in Norcia and it seems that no one is in a position to save him. Lee is unwit...

  • Ghost: A chilling story of the supernatural from the author of Witch

    Sue

    In 60 AD, Aine finds herself captured and enslaved by the Romans. Fleeing her new master, she hides in a tunnel where she finds an altar and unwittingly u...

  • Red as Royal Blood

    Rachel

    No one is more surprised than Ruby herself when she discovers that the late king has made her heir to his throne, especially as she works as a maid in the...

  • The Rebel and the Rose: Volume 2

    Linda

    Following her banishment from Fantome, Sera's journey to the remote hilltop haven of Halbracht introduces readers to a new powerful magic, and the foundin...

  • Keep Your Friends Close

    Sue

    When Chloe Roberts is cheated out of being Head Girl at Morton Academy by her supposed best friend, Nikhita Patel, everything changes. No longer assured t...

  • Electric Life: Surge

    Sue

    Having left Estrella, Alara has been living in London Under for six months. Although desperate to escape the restrictions of the city and feel alive, she...

  • The Dagger and the Flame: The instant number one bestseller: Volume 1

    Linda

    17-year-old Seraphine's life is shattered when she witnesses her home, with her mother inside it, consumed by flames. Forced to flee for her life, she see...

  • Murder on a School Night

    Kitty  Age 13

    I think this book is really good, as it's quite feminist and encourages girls to talk about their period and if you catch your boyfriend cheating with you...

Videos & Vlogs

Ghost, a riveting  story that spans centuries

Ghost, a riveting story that spans centuries

ReadingZone caught up with award-winning author Finbar Hawkins to explore his eerie new novel, Ghost (Zephyr<st

Neal Shusterman shares All Better Now

Neal Shusterman shares All Better Now

What if there was a virus that people wanted to catch? Neal Shusterman tells us what inspired his contemporary thriller, All Bett

A story about following your dreams: Leah Osakwe's Rock Band

A story about following your dreams: Leah Osakwe's Rock Band

Debut author Leah Osakwe tells ReadingZone about her new novel, Rock Band: Music and Misfits, a story about following your dreams

This month’s highlights

  • Picture Book

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2024

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2024

    Winners of the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2024 announced We are thrilled to announce the winners of the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2024, judged by Ste...

  • Book Trailers

    Make a Book Trailer

    Make a Book Trailer

    Create a Book Trailer Create a book trailer of your favourite book or your latest bookclub read for ReadingZone, and encourage others to read the book!  Or you can use it...

  • Videos & Vlogs

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Ever wanted to create your own vlog, but don't know how to get started? In these videos, author and book vlogger Lucy Powrie (lucythereader) gives her tips on getting started, what to inc...