Authors

  • Exploring Nizrana Farook's Adventure Stories for Children

    Exploring Nizrana Farook's Adventure Stories for Children

    The Boy Who Saved a Bear is the latest adventure from Nizrana Farook, whose books also include The Girl Who Lost a Leopard, The Boy Who Met a Whale and The Girl Who Stole an Elephant. Nizrana was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the beautiful...

  • Kieran Larwood:  Dungeon Runners

    Kieran Larwood: Dungeon Runners

    Kieran Larwood lives on the Isle of Wight where he enjoys exploring rockpools, climbing trees and writing. He was a Reception teacher before becoming a full-time author. His stories are inspired by a life-long love of fantasy stories, which began when, as a young boy, he picke...

  • Gary Panton introduces The Notwitches

    Gary Panton introduces The Notwitches

    Gary Panton describes himself as a 'writer, scribbler and constant doodler' and The Notwitches is his first children's novel. He hopes it will make you laugh! Gary is based in Perth in Scotland and has been writing for as long as he can remember, writing stories about d...

  • Anu Adebogun introduces her guide to life, It's a Brave Young World

    Anu Adebogun introduces her guide to life, It's a Brave Young World

    Anu Adebogun, British-Nigerian author, scholar and award-winning youth practitioner, introduces her new guide for young people, It's a Brave Young World, which draws on her decade of experience across the youth and community sector. She has also written 'Black a...

  • Judith Eagle steps back in time with The Great Theatre Rescue

    Judith Eagle steps back in time with The Great Theatre Rescue

    Judith Eagle introduces her latest historical fiction novel, The Great Theatre Rescue, which takes us back to bustling theatre land in 1930's London.  Judith is also the author of The Stolen Songbird, The Secret Starling, The Pear Affair and The Accidenta...

  • Stewart Foster

    Stewart Foster

    Stewart Foster explores friendships and young men's mental health in Pieces of Us, his first YA novel, which draws on his own teenage friendships, challenges and his battle with bulimia.  Foster writes books for adults and children, too, and these have won multiple scho...

  • Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho

    Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2022-2024.  He grew up in a tower block in London and started writing poetry at secondary school. After studying archaeology at university, his jobs ranged from being a gym inst...

  • Neal Shusterman introduces his new dystopian thriller, All Better Now

    Neal Shusterman introduces his new dystopian thriller, All Better Now

    Award-winning author Neal Shusterman joins ReadingZone to discuss his latest YA contemporary thriller, All Better Now. Neal has written more than 30 award-winning books for children, teens and adults, including the acclaimed Arc of a Scythe series (Scythe, Thunderhead a...