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Summer, festivals and first love: This Song Is About Us
Authors Q&As
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Sara Barnard tells ReadingZone what inspired her novel about first love, festivals and fame - This Song is About Us (Walker Books). When stardom calls, can love survive?
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AF Harrold's poetry in your pocket
Authors Q&As
Monday, March 3, 2025
Enjoy a Very Short pocket poem or two with poet AF Harrold, who introduces his Pocket Book of Pocket Poems. And see if you can guess how postcards helped inspire the collection!
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Anu Adebogun shares her guide to life for young people
Authors Q&As
Friday, February 7, 2025
Have questions about dealing with toxic friends, or how to tell your parents about a problem you have, or things being said on socials? Anu Adebogun's new guide for young people, It's a Brave Young Wo...
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You'd Better Watch Out....!
Authors Q&As
Friday, October 25, 2024
Find out how Frank Cadaver's love of Christmas led him to write a horror story about a Christmas elf - You'd Better Watch Out.
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A city under siege
Authors Q&As
Monday, September 4, 2023
Sweet Skies is an inspiring story about friendship, loss and survival in a ruined city. Author Robin Scott-Elliot tells ReadingZone how his love of history, his family's links with Berlin, and a story about a kindly American pilot, helped inspire him to write it.
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How a Japanese legend inspired a new fantasy adventure
Authors Q&As
Friday, April 21, 2023
Discover how the legend of a magical sword helped inspire Misa Sugiura's Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind (Puffin). In this fast-paced fantasy adventure, Momo discovers that her mother is a Shinto goddess and embarks on a quest to find a legendary sword.
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Shapeshifting into fantastical creatures
Authors Q&As
Thursday, November 10, 2022
In Kieran Larwood's new environmental fantasy, The Treekeepers, you'll meet shape-shifters, young people with incredible powers over nature, and a ghost or two.
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Writing about the 'dark side'
Authors Q&As
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Look out for zombies (naturally), hell hounds and the occasional talking pet in this fast-paced and wit-sharp story about teenagers who open the gates of hell.... We asked author Bryony Pearce to tell us more!
