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Did you know that long ago Scotland was buried under a layer of ice one kilometre thick? Or that Orkney’s neolithic village, Skara Brae is older than the Great Pyramid in Egypt? Or that the [...]

Congratulations to Anders Frang! HOLEY MOLEY written by debut writer, Bethan Clarke and illustrated by Anders has just been published by Little Tiger Press. Gus the Goat loves guessing. And Gus [...]

  ‘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 [...]

Since the beginning of human history we have been at war with an invisible enemy. MICROBES! MICROBE WARS written by brilliant science communicator Gill Arbuthnott, strikingly illustrated by [...]