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The World Between the Rain has won the Bookling award! Congratulations Susan. The Bookling Award is the creation of librarian and author Lucas Maxwell. Seven hundred students involved in the choice of winner. What a compliment!

Great to see Hannah Moffatt, author of Small! and Small Bites Back, win a GLL Literaryaward. The GLL Literary Foundation was established in November 2024 to support ‘up and coming’ children’s authors who are based in Bromley, Dudley, Greenwich, Lincolnshire and Wandsworth – all areas where GLL operates public libraries under its ‘Better’ brand. The […]

The World Between the Rain by Susan Cahill Long Listed for the Branford Boase   The World between the Rain  is a lyrical exploration of grief and coming of age and an exciting and deeply original tale of how a young girl discovers herself by entering a world between the ever falling rain of West Cork […]

Great to see Runner Hawk, A Times & Sunday Times best Book of the Year nominated for the Carnegie runner hawk first chapter

Small— the mighty Small by Hannah Moffatt has won a Fantastic Book award. The Fantastic Book Award  is the brain child of the Lancashire School Library Service. Children are involved at every level and at the prize giving 400 children came. Congratulations Hannah!

Ami’s page-turning novel set in contemporary London— love, dreams and illusions on a London bus,heading for Boundary Road— has been shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Sunny Singh who founded the Jhalak called the chosen books “necessary, urgent and timeless”. Up for the Jhalak Prize are Noreen Masud for A Flat Place (Penguin), Yepoka Yeebo for Anansi’s Gold: The […]

‘Three recent releases set during or just after the Second World War are variably free-spirited fictionalizations of true events. The standout among these is Robin Scott-Elliot’s Sweet Skies. Between June 1948 and September 1949 the Luftbrücke, or Berlin airlift, kept the residents of West Berlin supplied with food and fuel after the Soviets blockaded the city. Scott-Elliot’s […]

A coming of age wrapped up in a thriller and ghost story with a plot that makes it difficult to put down. Wonderful to see it picked as one of the books of the year. Leo is running out of time— almost. Has got got time to to learn how to live ( it’s amazing […]

It’s a fine list of books this year and we’re delighted to see The Chestnut Roaster among them. 12-year-old Piaf has the ability to (and burden of) remembering everything that has happened since the day she was born. When she discovers everyone in Paris has forgotten the entire last year, 1887, including the disappearance of […]

Lovely to see Sweet Skies shortlisted for the Juniper Book Awards