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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

  • Every Borrowed Beat

    She's been given a new heart. Now she just needs to make sure it doesn't break.

  • Fated Winds and Promising Seas: A tender-hearted tale of forging fates, fantastic creatures, and found family

    Fated Winds and Promising Seas is the brilliant follow up standalone novel from Rose Black! Legends & Lattes meets Kings of the Wyld

  • Heist Royale: The enemies-to-lovers sequel to Thieves' Gambit

    Many will play . . . one will win. Would you join the Thieves' Gambit?

  • 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

  • The Moss

    There are two things 17-year-old Emma Carver is known for: the fact that she grew up beside a sprawling bog, and that her sister went mis

  • Phantom Hearts

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

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

  • Every Borrowed Beat

    Ruth

    I really enjoyed reading Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. You might rightly expect this book to be extremely sad but the author has c...

  • 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...

  • Crying Wolf

    Clare

    Joey is trying to get his life back on track after the disappearance of his step-father and a descent into drugs and petty criminality. Lured by his devot...

  • Fated Winds and Promising Seas: A tender-hearted tale of forging fates, fantastic creatures, and found family

    Linda

    After ten years of imprisonment for a crime he cannot remember committing, Lucky is ripped free from his prison and swept out into the ocean. . . and resc...

  • Black History for Every Day of the Year

    Clare

    This fabulous new history is an introduction to notable black figures and events across centuries and from around the world. From noted h...

  • Heist Royale: The enemies-to-lovers sequel to Thieves' Gambit

    Linda

    Heist Royale is the sequel to the action-packed Thieves' Gambit and once again...

  • Play

    Edward

    After reading Luke Palmer’s debut novel for young adults, Grow, I was immediately eager to order his second book Play</...

  • The Moss

    Clair  Age 14

    This book is phenomenal; an eerie, atmospheric ghost story that slowly but surely builds up the tension. Emma's mother disappeared, follo...

  • 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...

  • The Twelve

    Ruth

    The Twelve by Liz Hyde is a beautifully crafted middle grade book with an enticing, atmospheric cover illustrated by Tom de Freston. Alth...

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

This month’s highlights

  • Picture Book

    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...

  • Book Trailers

    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...

  • Videos & Vlogs

    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...