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This post was written by Vincent Tirado, author of Burn Down, Rise Up Lately, I’ve become a huge fan of Our Flag Means Death. It’s an amazing historical comedy about the adventures of one Stede Bonnet, an aristocrat who abandons his life…

This post was written by Mark Ballabon, author of Home. I come from a varied background in the arts - from music and composition, dance and choreography, to non-fiction writing and poetry. So it seemed very natural to include some of these…

This post was written by Amelia Kahaney, author of All the Best Liars. The Salton Sea is a 350-square-mile body of water in the middle of the California desert, created in 1905 after an irrigation system accident. In the mid-20th century,…

This post was written by Rory Power, author of In a Garden Burning Gold. I have two standard answers when asked what my favorite books were as a kid: the Redwall series, by Brian Jacques, and the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan (and…

This post was written by Chelsea Ichaso, author of Dead Girls Can’t Tell Secrets. Finished reading Dead Girls Can’t Tell Secrets and finding yourself craving even more thrills, fit with all the teen drama and angst? Fortunately, the…

This post was written by Ryan Douglass, author of The Taking of Jake Livingson. Jake Livingston is an average teenager who’s struggling to fit in at a new high school. To make matters worse, Jake can see the dead living their final moments…

This post was written by Aneesa Marufu, author of The Balloon Thief. Sponsored by Chicken House Books. When I first sat down to write The Balloon Thief back in 2018, my intention was simply to quell my obsession for things that fly, but as…

This post was written by Amélie Wen Zhao, author of Crimson Reign The era of the traditional divide between Good Hero and Evil Villain has ended; enter the age of the morally gray. In the Blood Heir trilogy, my protagonist Anastacya…

The UK has so many wonderful YA authors, so narrowing this list down wasn’t easy. But here are five writers whose stories refuse to be ignored. Sarah Ann Juckes I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Sarah Ann Juckes is one of…

Murder and mayhem is on the rise… at least in the YA fiction charts. So if you’re hooked by twisty stories like One of Us is Lying and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder there’s good news – more dark secrets, masked assassins and creepy…

As a teenager navigating anxiety and depression I spent a lot of time curled up with a funny book, because funny books can do so much more than just give you a good laugh. Using humour, they can sneakily address issues that you might have…

This post was written by Akshaya Raman, author of The Ivory Key One of my favourite aspects of writing The Ivory Key was getting to incorporate elements of my own heritage into the story. But growing up, I never saw fantasy books that had…

Give me a YA book with a strong romance main plot or subplot and I’m hooked! But there’s nothing as disappointing as shipping two of your favorite characters and they don’t ever end up together. I’m going to pick the brooding bad boy like,…

This post was written by Jenni Jennings, author of Merry Kissmas to You We all want to treat the ones we love at Christmas but sometimes there just isn’t enough money in the pot to buy the gifts we’d like to. Over the years I’ve learned…

This post was written by Bryony Pearce, author of Savage Island and Cruel Castle It’s interesting to speculate as to why Squid Game has become such a huge hit. Is it the engaging characters? Is it the high-quality filming and…