Tacye

Learn about the world building behind her trilogy.

"I really enjoyed the research for this part, which I mostly did just by Googling and reading different articles - I’d often get to an internal state I’d describe as 'scream-laughter'."

"But queerness has granted me community and freedom from a lot of my internalized, heteronormative expectations of what a happy life has to look like."

"Our anger is constantly forced downwards, away from our mouths and fists, pressed deep into our bellies, a pressure valve with no release. And we wonder why it so often spills over. We wonder why we feel so evil when it does."

Sal hates standing out. But he lives in a haunted house - and everybody knows it. His oldest friend, Dirk, tries to help... but he wants to stay popular, and Sal isn't helping. Elsie was popular - until recently. Now she's on the outcast's…

The Silver Chain is an illustrated coming-of-age verse novel about family, mental health and the healing power of music. Azadeh is a budding violinist on a music scholarship at an expensive private school, dealing with all the usual trials…

Emma Carroll reworked the Hans Christian Andersen classic in The Little Match Girl Strikes Back. Along with illustrations from Lauren Child, this book is a brilliant feminist retelling that gives the match girl a much deserved voice. We had…

Rosie Talbot, known on BookTok as @merrowchild, has finally released her debut YA novel, Sixteen Souls with Scholastic after an unusual publishing journey. The heartfelt novel follows Charlie Frith as he realises that one of his own ghostly…

The BBC has been organizing the Young Writers' Award with the University of Cambridge for eight years. The challenge encourages young people in the UK aged between 14-18 years to submit stories of up to 1,000 words. The winner this year is…

All My Rage is an absolutely beautiful story - that took 15 years to complete.

The Silence That Binds Us is an incredibly touching tale about first-generation families, racism, grief and anger.

VAMPS: Fresh Blood has everything you want from a vampire novel

"However these moments, whether they're reflective, elegiac, romantic, epic, or a father-son interlude, are all incredibly important to me."

Babel is the newest dark academia fantasy written by Kuang, who penned the award winning trilogy Poppy War.

"Perhaps it’s about allowing the complexity and the messiness of humanity to be real, even though I’m writing fiction."