After working with teenagers for more than a decade, Carla Spradbery decided to start writing for and about them. Having had a lifelong obsession with dark literature, it only seemed...

It was a moment of pure terror that set Leigh Bardugo onto a path that led her to the sensational New York Times bestselling Grisha trilogy and critical acclaim from...

Half Bad, the debut witch novel for teens by Sally Green hit the headlines recently after breaking a Guinness World Record for most translated book pre-publication. It’s already been sold...

Half Bad, the debut witch novel for teens by Sally Green hit the headlines recently after breaking a Guinness World Record for most translated book pre-publication. It’s already been sold...

Vanessa handed me an ARC (advance reader’s copy) of Lockwood & Co. with little warning, other than mentioning that it had had to be pried out of the hands of...

For any reader or writer of fantasy, magic can be created in just a few words, and great story can come from anywhere. Photographer and artist Phil McDarby’s work is...

Laughing children, bemused parents, and one of the most enthusiastic authors you’re ever likely to meet were the first things that greeted me when I arrived at British author Cressida...

I’m Philip Bell, writer, author and publisher at Beachy Books, a little family-run children’s books publisher based in the Isle of Wight. I’m not Irish but I’m married to a...

American writer Lauren Kate is the internationally best-selling author of  The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, a reworking of Macbeth, and the Fallen series – Fallen, Torment, the just-released Passion, and the forthcomingRapture. Her novels have...

You describe in your recent Guardian interview how you comforted your daughter with the Spiderwick Chronicles while she was in hospital, suffering from seizures. “She seems to have healed, with no real...