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Keren David's WHAT WE'RE SCARED OF longlisted for the Year 9 Book Award
Many congratulations to Keren David, who has been longlisted for the Warwickshire Schools Library Service Year 9 Book Award 2021, for her novel WHAT WE’RE SCARED OF (Scholastic, 2021), alongside nine other authors including Angie Thomas and Alex More...
WHAT WE’RE SCARED OF shortlisted for Bristol Teen Book Award 2021/22
We are very excited by the news that Keren David’s What We’re Scared Of (Scholastic) has been shortlisted for the Bristol Teen Book Award 2021/22. The award ceremony will take place provisionally on 16th More...
Warner Bros. Japan adapting A ROBOT IN THE GARDEN for film
Warner Brothers Japan have announced their live-action film adaptation of A ROBOT IN THE GARDEN, to be released in 2022 under the title TANG. The main character, Ben, will be played by Kazunari Ninomiya, known by fans as Nino. He is a Japanese More...
THE UNADOPTABLES and STRANGER shortlisted for the Italian Andersen Prize
We are proud to announce that THE UNADOPTABLES by Hana Tooke (GLI INADOTTABILI published by Rizzoli, 2021) and STRANGER (published by Giunti, 2020) by Keren David have both been shortlisted for the Andersen Prize in the age 12 years plus and 15 years More...
THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET optioned by Andy Serkis' Imaginarium Productions
Catriona Ward’s third novel, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, published in the UK today by Viper Books, has been optioned for film by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s Imaginarium Productions. Serkis called the novel “the kind of More...
Dunya Mikhail longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021
Many congratulations to Dunya Mikhail, who has been longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021, with her debut novel The Bird Tattoo. Mikhail, who worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer until, facing increasing threats More...
Kirsten Boie's DUNKELNACHT a Spiegel bestseller
Kirsten Boie’s new novel Dunkelnacht (Dark Night) has entered the Speigel bestseller list at No. 17. Published on February 6th in Germany by Oetinger, Dunkelnacht is the story based on the events that occurred in Penzberg, a small town More...
THE SANATORIUM by Sarah Pearse is Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick for February
Many congratulations to Sarah Pearse, whose debut novel THE SANATORIUM was annnounced as Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Pick for February 2021 on the day of its US release (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking). Witherspoon described the book as “an More...
Cornelia Funke awarded German Children's Literature Special Award for Lifetime Achievement 2020
We are very excited to share the news that Cornelia Funke has received the German Children’s Literature Special Award for Lifetime Achievement 2020. Cornelia Funke has published more than 70 books for children and young adults which have been More...
Matt Brown wins the FCBG Book Award (Young Readers category)
Matt Brown has won the Books for Young Readers category of the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Book Award with MUTANT ZOMBIES CURSED MY SCHOOL TRIP! – illustrated by Paco Sordo. MUTANT ZOMBIES CURSED MY SCHOOL TRIP! is the second More...
