What will we find when the ice-caps melt?

Antonia Maxwell’s Terra Electrica: The Guardians of the North is a story about how a young girl faces a dystopian future and emerges as a potential saviour of humanity. 

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A new James Lee Burke: triumph or misstep?

Clete by James Lee Burke – the 24th instalment in his Robicheaux series - marks something of a departure from the formula we’ve all become accustomed to.

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Coping with fierce emotions

Pavlo Gets the Grumps by Natalia Shaloshvili confronts the issue of children's ever fluctuating emotions

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Revisiting a Japanese master

The House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata contains an extended short story / novella that provides the title of the volume and two shorter stories – One Arm and Of Birds and Beasts – which make up the collection.

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An Exclusive Interview with Michelle Maiden

We are delighted to present an exclusive interview with author/illustrator, Michelle Maiden. Michelle grew up in Queens, New York in a creative and ethnically diverse household, her mother a Japanese artist and her father a Jewish American poet. Grandpa Kuma, published by Wacky Bee Books, is her first children's picture book.

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Inspiring Young Readers

Come into the wonderful world of children's literature.

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Inspiring Older Readers

Ideas for reading and collecting books of all kinds.

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