A first outing for a major illustrator, artist and author

The story of how Posy Simmonds illustrated her first book jacket

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A cosmic school project

The World’s Worst Alien by Alice Primmer, illustrated by Fred Blunt has a compelling plot with comic book style illustrations throughout 

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The Beautiful Room is Empty

Guest writer, Alun Severn pays tribute to the work of Edmund White, who died in June of this year.

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Crossing the desert by robot camel

The Amulet of Hath by Vashti Hardy is the second book in Vashti Hardy’s ‘Relic Hunters’ series and it’s fun to welcome back Mabel and Will Greystone and their intrepid Aunt Lucy.

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The 1984-5 Miners’ Strike in fiction : the industrial dispute as social and political myth

This article explores the way in which novels that feature trade unions and trade unionism are used by their authors to dramatise what they see as a paradigm shift in British political and social thinking.

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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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