Authors Young Adult
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Kathryn Clark
Kathryn Clark tells ReadingZone what inspired the challenging themes in her novel, Things I Learned While I Was Dead. Kathryn is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA Writing for Young People. Her work has been long/shortlisted in awards including Times/Chicken House, Mslexia C...
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Kenechi Udogu
Kenechi Udogu introduces her eco science-fiction adventure, Augmented, set in a near-future, climate-challenged London. Kenechi was born in Nigerian but now works as an architect and writer in London. Her work centres on culturally diverse characters in sci-fi, fantasy...
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Tasneem Abdur-Rashid explores identity and belonging in Odd Girl Out
Tasneem Abdur-Rashid is a British Bengali writer born and raised in London. Odd Girl Out is her YA debut, a story about identity, faith and finding your place in your world. A mother of two, Tasneem has worked across media, PR and communicatio...
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Marisa Linton's award-winning YA debut, The Binding Spell
Find out what inspired Marisa Linton's supernatural YA debut, The Binding Spell, winner of The Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition. Before she became a YA author, Marisa Linton wrote about history and taught history at Kingston University, specialising...
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Sara Barnard
Sara Barnard's This Song is About Us is a powerful YA novel exploring first love, fame and social media. After Sara graduated, she became a content writer at an international online healthcare company in London - but what she had always wanted do was to be a writer. Sar...
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Alexia Casale's YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero
Alexia Casale introduces her new YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero, a story about following your dreams. British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia Casale is an author, writing consultant and teacher living in Buckinghamshire. She has a PhD and teaching qualific...
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Ravena Guron introduces her new YA thriller, Mondays Are Murder
Ravena Guron is the bestselling author of Young Adult thrillers: This Book Kills, Catch Your Death and her latest novel, Mondays Are Murder.</...
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KL Walther's Ferris Bueller-inspired novel, While We're Young
Find out how the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off helped inspire KL Walther's YA novel, While We're Young, about a group of teenagers who take a day off school. KL Walther was born and raised in the rolling hills of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by family, dogs, a...
