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"Compassion, because Isabel is human and deserves second chances and deserves safety, and hope, because there is too much despair in the world already."
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Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock chats small towns and linking short stories in Everyone Dies…
"Short stories, like radio, need to be succinct and every word must be essential."
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam talk hope and poetry in their novel in verse, Punching…
"Hope is knowing that there is always another day, another minute, another second to make things right."
David Valdes on his queer time travelling YA debut, Spin Me Right Round
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Following modern day gay teen, Luis Gonzalez, after he finds himself having…
Win 1 of 5 signed copies by Ellie Pillai is Brown by Christine Pillainayagam
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If you're in the market for a laugh out loud, rom-com with a charismatic main…
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We are back again with another Penguin Platform book club read-along. For those who are new, each month Penguin Platform picks a title from their newest releases. We then get to discuss all the spoilers with fellow readers on Discord and then ask the…
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Kat Cho talks K-Pop, dream casts and her gorgeous new YA contemporary, Once Upon a…
To all K-Pop, K-Drama and childhood-friends-to-lovers fans out there, consider this your warning that author, Kat…
Sara Barnard talks travelling solo and welcoming the unknown in her YA novel,…
"Be realistic about what travelling solo means – are you prepared to feel lonely sometimes?"
Gay Club! is a hilarious story about LGBTQ+ students fighting to win Presidency at the club's election.
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Bryony Pearce talks necromancy and her new book, Raising Hell
I start my stories with a ‘what if?’ In this case it was ‘what if magic suddenly started working?’
WIN 1 of 5 proof copies of I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is back and this time she's dipping her toe in the world of young adult, with their new YA…
Get ready to meet the heist book of your dreams with Grace D. Li's truly sensational debut novel, Portrait of a Thief.
Getaway drivers, romance, hacking and nail-biting heists, Portrait of a Thief, has everything you could want from a heist novel and so much more. This book will have you on the…
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Tracy Darnton talks unreliable narrators and her new YA thriller, Ready or Not
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My latest thriller, Ready or Not, is out in May.…
Ann Sei Lin on her brilliantly inventive YA fantasy debut, Rebel Skies
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Highly inventive, with intricate world building, intriguing characters and an…