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Caroline O'Donoghue chats why queer and trans people are foundational figures within magical communities and she honors it in All Our Hidden Gifts.

Alison Weatherby chats what she would want to do at Bletchley Park and whether she could keep secrets like those in The Secrets Act.

Ella McLeod's debut, Rapunzella, Or Don't Touch My Hair merges poetry and prose in a stunningly lyrical exploration of a teenager coming into her power as a young woman. Rapunzella is imprisoned in an enchanted forest made of her own…

YALC returns after a long hiatus, and we've made you this ultimate compilation of synopsis and interview excerpts.

"Being an ally is both simple and difficult, and I think You Can Trust Me acknowledges that, which I hope makes it an effective guide."

"Queer people are still people, it's not a magic wand of unique moral perfection... At the end of the day, queer people are not automatically nor exclusively able to be 'kind' or 'accepting'!"

Katya Balen won both the Yoto Carnegie Award and the Shadowers’ Choice Award this year with her beautifully written work, October, October.  To celebrate this year's amazing shortlist titles, we are giving you a chance to win the entire…

"he details of daily life are what I love about historical fiction – it’s as close to time travel as we can get."

"eenagers experience profound loss and love and stress and anguish in the same way adults do and a lot of the time alongside adults."

When teen reality star Anton Frazer unveils his latest stunt - a live-streamed, citywide game of Tag in which the prize is to be one of his live-in acolytes - his fans go wild. The whole world is watching. The contestants are kitted out…

"Novels teach us through empathy – through our heart. I’m hoping that readers will connect with issues around identity and human rights as well as building peace and respect – those concepts can apply much wider than just Northern Ireland."

"What I’m interested in people’s ability to do good, regardless of the difficult starts to their lives."

"I also find not thinking about what I’m writing often helps new expressions to flow."

"Amidst the trauma and sadness there was humour, and a determination to build new, possibly even better, communities."

"Novel writing is about you sitting a desk until that draft is done, so it’s a solitary, immersed process. And then you rewrite it. And again..."