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Kat Delacorte on her captivatingly dark YA debut, With Fire in Their Blood
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Set against the gothic backdrop of Castello, an isolated walled Italian city mysteriously split in two, With Fire in Their Blood by Kat Delacorte is one of 2022's most original and exciting releases.…
Sabaa Tahir chats All My Rage bearing witness to people’s pain and rage
All My Rage is an absolutely beautiful story - that took 15 years to complete.
Joanna Ho chats showing love as an Asian mom and being “Asian enough” in her touching story, The…
The Silence That Binds Us is an incredibly touching tale about first-generation families, racism, grief and anger.
Nicole Arend chats building her unique vampire hierarchy in VAMPS: Fresh Blood
VAMPS: Fresh Blood has everything you want from a vampire novel
Darren Charlton chats how Wranglestone brings about beauty in thoughts and words
"However these moments, whether they're reflective, elegiac, romantic, epic, or a father-son interlude, are all incredibly important to me."
Read an exclusive extract from Strike the Zither by Joan He
Joan He is back and this year she's blessing our shelves with Strike the Zither, the first book in what's set to be an epic new YA fantasy series inspired by one of the Four Classics of Chinese Literature, Three Kingdoms. With rivalries,…
Tanvi Berwah’s top five books featuring fantasy companions
This post was written by Tanvi Berwah, author of Monsters Born and Made.
Fantasy creatures have been around for as long as humanity could tell tales. Around the fire, chalk figures in caves, ancient Greek dramas, ancient Japanese…
B.B. Alston on inspiration, movie adaptations and his sensational new middle grade novel, Amari and…
One of the best pieces of children’s fiction to hit shelves in many many years, B.B. Alston's hit debut, Amari and the Night Brothers, took the world by storm with its 2021 release and we've been more than a little bit obsessed with it ever…
13 must read YA book releases for September 2022
Teen gods, K-Drama stars, aspiring writers, deadly assassins, witches in training... these September 2022 YA releases have it all and more and we can't wait to start reading.
Mindwalker by Kate Dylan (1st September)…
WIN a copy of BABEL + a set of POPPY WAR by R.F. Kuang
Babel is the newest dark academia fantasy written by Kuang, who penned the award winning trilogy Poppy War.
Win 1 of 5 copies of Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair by Ella McLeod
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Expertly weaving together inner-city life and fairytale kingdoms, and written in both prose and poetry, Ella McLeod's genre-bending debut, Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair, is a unique and powerful…
Sue Divin chats the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the Truth be Told
"Perhaps it’s about allowing the complexity and the messiness of humanity to be real, even though I’m writing fiction."
Becky Jerams and Ellie Wyatt chat writing songs for their YA title, The Songs You’ve Never Heard
Becky Jerams and Ellie Wyatt are songwriters who have written for films, shows, adverts and more.
Charlene Thomas’ top YA debuts where black and brown girls stand up to the patriarchy
My debut YA novel Seton Girls comes out August 30 and I am incredibly excited for people to get the chance to read it. It’s a twisty, dual-timeline narrative that tells the story of a 12-year undefeated football team at an elite prep…
Sangu Mandanna on her bewitching new rom-com, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Cosy, romantic and perfectly magical, Sangu Mandanna's debut rom-com, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, is a must read for anyone in need of a comforting, witchy story starring a delightful cast of characters and a heartwarming…