Books

With romance, powers, clan wars, secrets and a deeply gothic Italian setting, it's not too far of a stretch to say we're a little obsessed with Kat Delacorte's gripping debut YA novel, With Fire in Their Blood. Set in Castello, a walled…

One of the most emotional, moving, harrowing and beautifully written debut's of 2022, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh, tells the story of Salama, an aspiring pharmacist and Syrian teen caught in the middle of Syria's…

This post was written by Chaz Hayden, author of The First Thing About You. Throughout the process of writing my debut novel, The First Thing About You, I’d often listen to songs or musicians that set the mood for the chapter I was about to…

This post is sponsored by penguin. 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.…

All My Rage is an absolutely beautiful story - that took 15 years to complete.

The Silence That Binds Us is an incredibly touching tale about first-generation families, racism, grief and anger.

VAMPS: Fresh Blood has everything you want from a vampire novel

"However these moments, whether they're reflective, elegiac, romantic, epic, or a father-son interlude, are all incredibly important to me."

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,…

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…

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…

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)…

Babel is the newest dark academia fantasy written by Kuang, who penned the award winning trilogy Poppy War.

This post is sponsored by Scholastic. 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…

"Perhaps it’s about allowing the complexity and the messiness of humanity to be real, even though I’m writing fiction."