Authors Young Adult

  • Kathryn Clark

    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...

  • Kenechi Udogu

    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...

  • Tasneem Abdur-Rashid explores identity and belonging in Odd Girl Out

    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...

  • Marisa Linton's award-winning YA debut, The Binding Spell

    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...

  • Sara Barnard

    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...

  • Alexia Casale's YA novel, Not That Kind of Hero

    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...

  • Ravena Guron introduces her new YA thriller, Mondays Are Murder

    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.</...

  • KL Walther's Ferris Bueller-inspired novel, While We're Young

    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...