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"I also find not thinking about what I’m writing often helps new expressions to flow."
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Read an extract from David Valdes’ debut novel, Spin Me Right Round
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Following gay Cuban-American teen, Luis Gonzalez, as he travels back to the…
Julian Sedgwick talks honouring Japanese culture and philosophy in Tsunami Girl
"Amidst the trauma and sadness there was humour, and a determination to build new, possibly even better,…
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A beautifully written and page-turning exploration of grief, passion, heartbreak and fate, Kelis Rowe's debut YA novel, Finding Jupiter, is an emotional and powerful contemporary read your bookshelves will thank you for. To celebrate the release of Ray and Orion's…
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Finbar Hawkins chats his writing journey before penning his debut, Witch
"Novel writing is about you sitting a desk until that draft is done, so it’s a solitary, immersed process. And then…
Alex Wheatle talks writing Jamaican dialect and teenager’s perspective in…
"One of the things a conquered people lose first is their language, so keeping a hint of that language in the…
Win a set of Heartstopper books, the graphic novel behind the beloved Netflix adaptation.
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Exciting new YA reads for June 2022
2022 has already gifted our bookshelves with countless new YA reads to fall in love with and despite the year…
Naomi Gibson talks AI programming in her debut YA novel, Every Line of You
Every Line of You is a thriller about a girl who uses AI to cope with her grief, except the project becomes bigger…
"Compassion, because Isabel is human and deserves second chances and deserves safety, and hope, because there is too much despair in the world already."
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Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock chats small towns and linking short stories in Everyone Dies…
"Short stories, like radio, need to be succinct and every word must be essential."
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam talk hope and poetry in their novel in verse, Punching…
"Hope is knowing that there is always another day, another minute, another second to make things right."
David Valdes on his queer time travelling YA debut, Spin Me Right Round
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Following modern day gay teen, Luis Gonzalez, after he finds himself having…
Win 1 of 5 signed copies by Ellie Pillai is Brown by Christine Pillainayagam
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If you're in the market for a laugh out loud, rom-com with a charismatic main…