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Alex Foulkes
Discover a world of mischievous imps in Alex Foulkes's new children's book, Ministry of Mischief! Alex is from Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands of England, and lives with her boyfriend and their dog, Mac, who is just small enough to sit on the back of a broomstick (very c...
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Katherine Woodfine
Katherine Woodfine and Isabelle Follath introduce their retelling of LM Montgomery's classic story, Anne of Green Gables. Katherine Woodfine writes murder mystery series including Sinclair's Mysteries and The Taylor & Rose Secret Agents series. She...
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Katya Balen
Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behaviour. She has worked in a variety of special needs schools as a teaching assistant, and more recently co-founded Mainspring Arts - a not-for-profit organisation that provi...
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BB Alston
BB Alston started writing in middle school, entertaining his classmates with horror stories starring the whole class where not everyone survived! He had just been accepted into a biomedical graduate program when a chance entry into a twitter pitch contest led to his signing with his agent, 20+...
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Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author and whose novels for children include Rooftoppers, The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer and The Good Thieves. She has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize amongst many...
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Nazima Pathan
Discover Dream Hunters, the debut fantasy novel by Nazima Pathan, set in a richly imagined alternate India. Nazima was born in India and raised in London, moving later to Cambridge where she lives with her husband and two children. She...
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Natasha Farrant
Natasha Farrant tells ReadingZone about her new adventure, The Secret of Golden Island. Her earlier children's adventure stories include Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, which won the Costa Children's Book Award, The Rescue of Ravenwood and The Children of Castle Rock. As well as writing, N...
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Helen Peters
Helen Peters revisits her childhood, growing up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud, in her new book, The Great Farm Rescue. Helen spent most of her childhood reading stories and putting on plays in a tumbledown shed that she and her friends turned...
