Middle Grade

  ‘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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mwah ha haaaaa… Every Friday at 5pm (UK time) Jamie Rix will post a new reading of one of his Grizzly Tales – you’ll find the Grizzly Tales channel on YouTube here. Jamie [...]

It’s back! The annual XPoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch! We’ll be among the many literary agents and publishers glued to their twitter feeds from 9am to 9pm on January 15th. You can [...]

Werewolf alert! The nights are drawing in, Hallowe’en’s on its way and we’re celebrating the third in the Lottie Luna series by Vivian French – Lottie Luna and the Fang [...]

It’s been an odd summer without book festivals to visit. But there was something rather nice about sitting in the comfort of my own home, on a frankly disgusting, misty-moisty August day in [...]

The ability to write for different age-groups and in different genres isn’t a skill with which all writers are blessed. But Tanya Landman, whose first novel, Waking Merlin, was published in [...]