Start The Story
Start The Story is an exciting new literacy magazine from award-winning authors, Barry Hutchison and Tommy Donbavand, aimed at teachers, parents, librarians… in fact, anyone who wants to promote...
View ArticleLes Zombies!
The French editions of Scream Street continue soon with the publication of Scream Street 4: Flesh of the Zombie. As ever, top illustrator, Eric Deschamps, has provided the image for the cover – and...
View ArticleWail of the Banshee
Scream Street 14: Wail of the Banshee is published today! This brand new adventure is now available from your favourite ebook retailer, for just 50p! “AAAYYYOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!” Stunned awake by...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Welcome to 2013, which is already shaping up to be quite an exciting year for me. I will have eight books published this year (yes, eight!) – They Came From Class 6C!, six adventures in my exciting...
View ArticleA Poised and Delicate Pleasure…
A starving girl. A walled garden. A kind, lonely man with a darkly magical secret. A gem of a story that glints in the shadows of your mind long after you read it: Porcelain by Benjamin Read and Chris...
View ArticleChasing the Dark
Thought I’d just share a recent read here – Chasing the Dark by Sam Hepburn. This is a thriller for 10+ that goes very much against the recent run of teen super-spy/wizardy stuff and reinvents...
View ArticleJimmy Coates: Blackout – exclusive video
It’s finally here. The best book I’ve written (I’m sure of it) and certainly the one that’s taken longest to get out there into readers’ hands. I’m incredibly excited (and a little nervous) that the...
View ArticleThe Greatest Escape?
You know the films of Hayao Miyazaki, of course. My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, Laputa: Castle in the Sky and others are renowned the world over as some of the most beautiful and...
View ArticleA Feast of Beasts
This last couple of weeks I’ve been enjoying the hell out of the Ash Mistry books by Sarwat Chadda. It’s great to see a series about a young hero of colour – especially one as spiky and complex as Ash...
View ArticleI Saw You, Smiling
Up for some Halloween reading? This year my recommendation is Sawbones by Catherine Johnson. In a pungently-painted eighteenth century London a stage magician and a surgeon’s apprentice must risk...
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