Events: Jorvik Viking Festival Meets Francesca Simon - The Lost Gods -...
When gods become celebrities at JORVIK Viking Festival VIKING FESTIVAL'The Lost Gods' with Francesca Simon -19 February 2014 at the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, YorkWhat...
View ArticleGuest Post: Claire McFall - Bombmaker - Published by Templar Publishing
I don’t get much in the way of post. A few bills, some junk mail. Dentist appointments. But the other day I came home from work to something very exciting: that little red postcard from the Royal...
View ArticleMr Ripley's One To Watch - Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Synopsis:Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to...
View ArticleBook Review Diary: The Forgotten War by Howard Sargent - Adult - Published by...
I am writing this book review with a beaming smile on my face because when I agreed to review this book for the publisher, I only initially read the book synopsis. I felt that this sounded particularly...
View ArticleBook Review: Peter Jay Black - Urban Outlaws - Published by Bloomsbury
Book Synopsis: In a bunker hidden deep beneath London live five extraordinary kids: meet world-famous hacker Jack, gadget geek Charlie, free runner Slink, comms chief Obi and decoy diva Wren. They're...
View ArticleBIG BOOK COVER REVEAL - SOPHIA McDOUGALL - MARS EVACUEES
Check out the post that supports this reveal on Sophia's blog HereBook Cover Synopsis: The fact that someone had decided I’d be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and...
View ArticleEVENT: UK'S FIRST ADULT LITERATURE CONVENTION - LONDON JULY 2014
Big names announced for UK’s first Young Adult Literature ConventionWaterstones Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman and the London Film and Comic Convention are pleased to...
View ArticleNew Children's/Teen Books Published In March 2014 - UK Post One
Philip Webb - Where the Rock Splits the Sky - Published by Chicken House - 25 March 2014The moon has been split, and the Visitors have Earth in their alien grip. But the...
View ArticleGuest Post: Howard Sargent - The Forgotten War - Book Guild Publishing 2014
It would have been around 1972 when I was six or seven that, whilst visiting my auntie’s house I first spotted a book that intrigued me. It was called “Watership Down and had a picture of a rabbit on...
View ArticleNew Children's/Teen Books Published In March 2014 - UK Post Two
Bethany Wiggins - Cured - Published by Bloomsbury Children's - 13, March 2014Fiona Tarsis is a legend. Her world was ravaged by a lethal virus, her family separated. Her friends were turned into...
View ArticleAlex McCall - Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens - Book Trailer - Kelpies -...
Why did the chicken cross the road? TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! The city of Aberdeen is being terrorised by giant robot chickens who want to peck out every last sign of human resistance. The streets are...
View ArticleBook Review: Sally Green - Half Bad - Published by Penguin 2014
One of the biggest books to make last years Bologna Book Fair was Sally Green's Half Bad. It received worldwide praise and some amazing comments from the publishing world. From this point onwards, the...
View ArticleSally Green - Half Bad - Blog Tour Dates - March 2014
Half Bad– Blog Tour Dates: March 2014Part One, Chapter RevealsSally Green24th February: Part One – the trick www.wondrousreads.com25th February: Part One – the cage...
View ArticleGuest Post: Peter Jay Black - Urban Outlaws - Published by Bloomsbury
Peter Jay Black....I’ve spent my entire life daydreaming when I should’ve been doing more important things like, oh, I don’t know. . . learning to cook? Every meal I try to prepare gets exterminated in...
View ArticleBest New Children's/Teen Books Published In March 2014 - UK
Roy Gill - Werewolf Parallel - Published by Kelpiesteen - 20, March 2014'His arms kept stretching, as if they were somehow getting longer. His fingers clenched in, then spread out again like claws. The...
View ArticleThe Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2014 Short-List
THIS YEARS SHORTLIST: BIRTHDAY SURPRISE by LISA DRAKEFORDWhen a girl unexpectedly gives birth on the bathroom floor at her best friend’s party, the fall-out is intense and affects everybody ... A...
View ArticleInterview with Sally Green - Half Bad Blog Tour - Published by Penguin Books...
On today's stop of the Half Bad blog tour day six you can read an interview with author, Sally Green. On the final stop you can win lovely signed copies of the book. Go to...
View ArticleMr Ripley's New Children's Books Published in March 2014 - US Published Post One
Philip Kerr - The Winter Horses - Published by Knopf Books - 25, March 2014 New York Times bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels, comes a breathtaking journey of survival in the dark days of...
View ArticleBook Review: Sophia McDougall - Mars Evacuees - Published by Egmont
I've been really looking forward to reading this book for a year or so now. Now I have finally had the chance to read it, the question has to be . . . . was it really worth the wait? It certainly...
View ArticleGuest Book Review: Panic by Lauren Oliver - Published by Hodder & Stoughton -...
Book review written by Sarah from TotalTeenFiction. This book review may contain spoilers. If you would like to read more book offerings from Sarah please check out her wonderful web site:...
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