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Blessing Musariri

Blessing Musariri

Award-winning author Blessing Musariri's new YA novel, When It's Your Turn for Midnight, draws on the Zimbabwean civil w More...

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Romantasy inspired by Indian folk tales

Romantasy inspired by Indian folk tales

In a world where the shadow-like 'daayan' stalk the night, the mages of Agraal are the only ones able to defend the realm. So when Prince More...

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A Career in..... See all

Film Production

Film Production

What is a film producer? Sophie tells us what the day-to-day job of a film producer involves, what she loves most More...

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Latest Books & Extracts

  • When It's Your Turn For Midnight

    An exceptional, thought-provoking YA novel about sisterhood, trauma and the fighting spirit of women, from Zimbabwean author, Blessing Mu

  • Phantom Hearts

    A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER meets HEARTSTOPPER with a supernaturalmurder mystery twist.

  • The Twelve

    It's supposed to be a treat for Kit, a winter holiday by the coast with her sister Libby and their mum. But when Libby vanishes into thin

  • The Blind Bowman: Dark Fire

    T.K. Hall's epic reimagining of the Robin Hood myth continues - this is brutal, beautiful fantasy writing of the highest order.

  • Twenty-Four Seconds From Now: A Regular Love Story

    A brand-new novel about virginity loss from Carnegie-winning, global sensation, Jason Reynolds - over 9 million books sold worldwide!

  • This Dark Heart

    In a world where shadow-like 'daayan' stalk the night only the mages of Agraal can defend the realm. When Princess Thiya discovers she is

Featured Authors

  • Blessing Musariri

    Blessing Musariri: Award-winning author Blessing Musariri's new YA novel, When It's Your Turn for Midnight, draws on the Zimbabwean civil w

  • Scarlett Dunmore

    Scarlett Dunmore: How to Survive a Horror Movie, Scarlett Dunmore's debut novel for YA readers, was inspired by her own love of scary films and halloween.<

  • Logan-Ashley Kisner

    Logan-Ashley Kisner: Old Wounds takes us to a sleepy backwater town to explore identity and questions around transness. It is Logan Ashley-Ki

  • Jenny Valentine

    Jenny Valentine: Jenny Valentine introduces her new YA book, Us in the Before and After, a powerful and absorbing novel about friendship, first love, and

  • Laura Jane Williams

    Laura Jane Williams: Queen of the cute-meet Laura Jane Williams introduces her debut novel for teenagers, Taylor Blake is a Legend. 

  • Helen Comerford

    Helen Comerford: Helen Comerford is a Black mixed-race British debut author and is passionate about Black British and mixed heritage repr

Your Reviews

  • The Blind Bowman: Dark Fire

    Lorraine

    Robin Hood and Marian have made the forest their home and scores of outlaws have joined them to prepare for battle with the Sherriff of Nottingham...

  • When It's Your Turn For Midnight

    Ruth

    When It's Your Turn For Midnight by award-winning author Blessing Musariri is a real life novel about a family based in Zimbabwe. After t...

  • Old Wounds

    Stephen

    Set in small-town America, Old Wounds is a creepy, thrilling and thought-provoking novel following trans teens Erin and Max who are tryin...

  • How to Survive a Horror Movie

    Lorraine

    Charley is starting over in a new boarding school on a remote island. Luckily her roommate shares her love of horror movies, and they bond over Slasher Sa...

  • The Ghost of Us: A swoony sapphic YA romance

    Eileen

    Haunted by her own cyberbullying incident years ago, aspiring ghosthunter Cara is determined to throw off her social outcast status by proving ghosts exis...

  • Let's Split Up

    Clare

    Let's Split Up is a fun (and frightening!) teen slasher story with a knowing nod to classic eighties and nineties horror. Think Goosebump...

  • Now, Conjurers

    Ruth

    Now, Conjurers is an enjoyable read, part horror fantasy, part relatable older teen reality, incorporating mystery and crime into its 400+ thrilli...

  • Our Wicked Histories

    Ophelia

    Our Wicked Histories is a delightfully sinister read that truly appealed to my love of horror and my interest in crime;  this novel also...

  • The Girl who Fell to Earth

    Maddalena

    Aria is a girl who lives with her family in a strange planet called Terros, during a class experiment she discovers that she has human DNA. Since she was...

  • Sword of the Sun: a breathtaking tale of adventure, myth and magic

    Jacqueline

    When Ben and his family are forced through economic circumstances to move from the city to a remote bit of countryside, what he does not expect is the mag...

Videos & Vlogs

A disturbing world of Calm

A disturbing world of Calm

SJ Baker introduces her new dystopian novel, Calm, a disturbingly possible world in which the people - and their emotions - are c

A new horror story from STAGS author

A new horror story from STAGS author

STAGS author MA Bennett introduces us to her terrifying Young Gothic horror novel, which draws on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein nov

A journey through hell....

A journey through hell....

YA author Jess Popplewell introduces her funny, dark re-imagining of hell, and the spark of romance as a girl and a demon find themselves

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    Create a Picture Book Competition 2024

    Create a Picture Book Competition 2024

    Winners of the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2024 announced We are thrilled to announce the winners of the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition 2024, judged by Ste...

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    Make a Book Trailer

    Make a Book Trailer

    Create a Book Trailer Create a book trailer of your favourite book or your latest bookclub read for ReadingZone, and encourage others to read the book!  Or you can use it...

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    Creating a Book Vlog

    Creating a Book Vlog

    Ever wanted to create your own vlog, but don't know how to get started? In these videos, author and book vlogger Lucy Powrie (lucythereader) gives her tips on getting started, what to inc...