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Barry Timms & Laura Borio: Griselda Snook's Spectacular Books
Barry Timms and Laura Borio introduce spooks, the joy of bookshops and reading for pleasure, in Griselda Snook's Spectacular Books! Barry Timms, an award-winning storyteller, grew up in Cornwall but now lives by a South London water tower and is a city...
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Ged Adamson
Author and illustrator Ged Adamson introduces Be Normal!, a story about accepting our friends for who they are. Ged was born in Liverpool and as a child he was obsessed with drawing, listening to music and making up tunes. In 2016, his story about a short-sighted dog, Douglas You Need G...
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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...
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Nicola Colton
Nicola Colton introduces her new series, Bertha and Blink, about a bear inventor and an excitable Robo-bird! Nicola is an Irish illustrator living in Bristol and is the creator of the popular 'People of Bristol'. Her work has featured in editorials, print and in variou...
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Marie Basting
Discover an alternate world peopled by Roman gods in Marie Basting's Auntie Medusa and Me, the follow-up to her hilarious My Family and Other Romans. For a long time, Marie had believed a careers advisor that girls like her don't become writers. But then something magical happened and M...
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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...
