Book Review: Everyone Dies Famous In A Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock’s Everyone Dies Famous In A Small Town is a short story collection about…

Book Review: Witches Steeped In Gold by Ciannon Smart

The first book in Ciannon Smart’s Caribbean-inspired YA fantasy duology follows two witches who are…

April reads: 10 of the best new books published this month

Spring has officially sprung (despite the odd spell of snow) and lockdown is easing, which…

Book Review: Oculta by Maya Motayne

Maya Motayne introduced readers to a rich, magical new world with the release of her…

Krystal Sutherland on Portals and Liminal Spaces in YA

If I ask you to think of a portal fantasy – a story in which…

Book Review: My Epic Spring Break (Up) by Kristin Rockaway

Sometimes all you’re looking for in your next read is that it’s quick, cute and…

Book Review: Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Front Desk is a wonderful, warm and adventurous middle grade novel. It follows Mia Tang…

Book Review: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

House of Hollow is a marked departure from Krystal Sutherland’s previous two YA contemporary novels,…

K. J. Maitland on where she writes and how it plays into her work

When I moved to a little cottage in Devon a few years ago, I adopted…

Book Review: Tall Bones by Anna Bailey

When 17-year-old Emma reluctantly leaves her best friend Abigail at the Tall Bones party in…

Book Review: Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguro

Common Ground follows Stan and Charlie, who we meet as teenagers living in the suburban…

Book Review: In The Garden – Essays on Nature and Growing

It’s always a jolt to find the words ‘lockdown’ or ‘pandemic’ in a recently released…