Review: The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
Jessica Miller’s superb second novel is a fairy tale for modern times
Access All Areas
Writers’ festival audiences show us just how skilled children’s authors need to be.
Age of Monsters
How the blockbuster changed children’s and YA publishing
Literary Life: an interview with Caroline Magerl
‘I take my nonsense really seriously.’ Writer, illustrator and artist Caroline Magerl on the power of images
Review: Everywhere, Everything, Everyone by Katy Warner
Playwright Katy Warner’s YA debut depicts the tightening grip of a new totalitarian regime
An Old Foolishness
Not far from any discussion about literature is someone waiting to elbow in with a ‘should’
Literary Life: an interview with agent Dyan Blacklock
‘A publisher is so much more than a maker of books. You’ve got to be friend, enemy, counsellor, agitator, pacifier.’
The Fine Print
What do Charlie Bucket and Harry Potter have in common? On story structure and the boundaries of adventure
Review: When the Ground is Hard, by Malla Nunn
What knowledge is worth having? Sixteen year old Adele asks herself this in crime writer Malla Nunn’s YA debut
