Victorian London. Meet Cassia Thorne. She lives with her father in a debtor's prison and she sells ballads at Bartholomew Fair in a bid to buy her freedom. Now children from the fair and the streets and the workhouse are going missing ...
Blog Tour: Ministry Of Mischief by Alex Folks
Monsters Inc meets Alice In Wonderland in this fantastically imaginative adventure. Joey has little self-belief. She's sure, as a group from her school set off on a trip to a local museum, that she's destroyed her team's chances of winning a ...
Blog Tour: Dream Hunters by Nazima Pathan
The Dream Hunters is set in India - but in an India where dream magic is real and dream workers live inside the Citadel which has been closed off from the outside world for some years. Dream Hunters are accompanied by magical creatures who go out ...
Blog Tour: Greenwild – The City Beyond The Sea. Q and A with author Pari Thompson
Word-Building Q&A Hello! We’re talking all things word building today! Could you start by telling us what it’s like to write the second book in a series? One of the joys of a series is the opportunity to return to a much-lov ...
Gargoyles, Guardians of the Source blog tour: A Q&A between Tamsin Mori and David Dean
It is rare to hear from cover designers in children's literature, especially on blogs, and even less usual for an author to interview the cover designer. Yet this Q&A session by author Tamsin Mori and cover designer David Dean mak ...
Blog Tour: Q&A with Diamond Jack author Anna Rainbow
About Diamond Jack: Your Magic Or Your Life by Anna Rainbow: While helping in Grandpa’s shop, Bramble discovers a strange scarlet mask. A tingling in her fingers tells her to try it on, but when she does she can’t take it off . . . And when she ...
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
When Christopher goes to stay with the grandfather he has never met before, he discovers that there is a portal to another world in the back garden. While the creatures in our world are dying due to a human-caused climate crisis, the creatures of the ...
The Midnight Switch by Samuel J. Halpin
A spooky old town called Barrow. The legendary Bogwitch who is said take one child every time the town floods in retaliation for an historical wrong. A secretive society that protects Barrow's heritage. Lewis finds himself chased by rooks as ...
Blog Tour: My Family And Other Romans by Marie Basting
Article by author Marie Basting LARPe Diem! The idea for My Family and Other Romans came to me in a dream. Red caped legionaries, glowing amber as they boarded a gleaming silver bullet train. It was too good a story seed not ...
Blog Tour: Call Of The Titanic by Lindsay Galvin
April 1912. Clarty Clara is the baby of her large family who is known for causing trouble. She lives on a ranch but has always dreamed of adventures, like the kind had by her cousin Harold, or Harry, who is th5Marconi operator aboard HMS Carpathia. W ...