‘I do like a bit of Ancient Egypt…’ Go to the BBC website – here – to hear Chae Strathie talking about being a writer, why he loves history so much, [...]
To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we’re highlighting Emily Dodd’s novella for 8 to 12 year-olds, Surfing the Moon, which was published last year by HarperCollins in their [...]
L. J. (Liz) MacWhirter has been invited to the Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology to present Blue: A Lament for the Sea. The field of religion and ecology began with the Religions of the [...]
We’re delighted to welcome Fiona Atherton to the Fraser Ross Associates fold. She came to us with her debut picture book, which will be published in 2023 by Otter-Barry Books. More of that [...]
Congratulations to Tanya Landman – Meg and Merlin Making Friends has been published by Barrington Stoke. With illustrations throughout by Sonia Albert, this is a delightful story about a 10 [...]
The Authorfy website is full of great resources for young writers – and for teachers, librarians, parents and guardians. Vivian French – whose latest novel, The Runaways of Haddington [...]
Hurrah! We’re celebrating a new novel by Vivian French – The Runaways of Haddington Hall is published today by Walker Books, and it’s a corker. For those of you who loved The [...]
Vivian French has been working with the fitness coach (among so many other things!) Joe Wicks on a series of children’s picture books about the Burpee Bears. The illustrator is Paul Howard [...]
It’s great to see bookshops reopening – how we have missed browsing bookshop shelves, eavesdropping on other readers’ enthusiasms (and criticisms!) and asking advice of [...]
Hannah Foley‘s debut novel, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle is out and about, available at all good bookshops. Hurrah! A winner of The Kelpies [...]