When fifteen year-old Yūki Hara Jones and her beloved grandpa are caught in the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, her life is changed forever. Losing him that fateful day never leaves her and Yūki is drawn to the wreckage of the house as his restless spirit guides her back. With her friend Taka by…
When teenagers go missing in her sleepy town, Quinn Calvet tries to use her influence and followers on The Whine to spread the word and help find them before it’s too late. Little does she know this has the opposite effect on her life and those around her when fake news challenges the truth. With…
Delighted to be hosting a fantastic guest post by Danny Weston as part of the Postcards To Valhalla blog tour. Read on to find out how the book’s QR codes came to be, and about the author’s own research trip to Shetland – the atmospheric setting of this thrilling YA novel. Finding inspiration in…
It’s Dyslexia Awareness Week and spooky season so what could be better than a deadly Barrington Stoke thriller by horror queen Cynthia Murphy? Welcome To Camp Killer starts out with a group of teenagers at an American-style residential camp on the grounds of a stately home with a gruesome past. What could possibly go wrong?…
It truly is a privilege to share Luke Palmer’s guest post for this week’s PLAY Blog Tour. A powerful read, this novel has continued to ‘play’ on my mind since I finished it. I was gripped by its raw exploration of masculinity and friendship, of role models and expectations, of games that turn…
…How far would you go to find out your name?… Imagine a life where you’re known only by a number. Some digits given to you by a higher power that considers you a stain on its world. After all, they only want perfection, in-sync gene pools and flawlessness so where does that leave sixteen-year-old…
It’s 1904, promises of a better world ring in Luki’s ears as she arrives in St Louis to take part in its World’s Fair. The land of opportunity awaits her and those from her tribe but all is not quite what it seems once they step onto dry land. She seeks a better life, one…
Freedom. Fairness. Family. Three powerful things that centre around Bera’s life and how she sees her place in this sometimes dangerous world she calls home. The strong need to be the woman she wants to be and life the life she wants to live are quickly overshadowed by her Valla duty when she discovers that…
Sixteen year-old Charlie Frith is alive and well. However, spending time with the ghosts and ghouls he bumps into around the old streets of York, his every day life can be a living hell. Charlie is a seer which means ghosts either need his help or they want to eat him. Sometimes he doesn’t know…
It all started with an anonymous post on social media. A scandal, they said. Things like this don’t happen in our school, said another. But they were wrong. Rape is not something to laugh about or to ignore and hope that it goes away. But that’s what they thought would happen. Cassie’s rage seems to…
Flying Eye has set the bar sky high with the publication of their first YA novel – The Bones Of Me by Kel Duckhouse. Amateur boxer Molly is determined to follow in her brother Denny’s footsteps, and rise above the low expectations people have of a working class girl from a council estate. And…
Ivy sees things lurking in the shadows. Things that shouldn’t be there. Things that she doesn’t want to meet in her dreams. When her estranged mother gets in touch out of the blue with messages of fear and anguish, her life takes on a weird and supernatural twist. An ordinary shift at the Butterfly Farm…
TW: drowning The thin line between the living and the dead is there, if you look close enough. It draws you in as fleeting moments of sadness and grief rain down over those succumbed to its power. They step over the threshold without even realising it, The Boatman waiting patiently for their one-way trip to…
Anna Campbell is the one everyone goes to in their hour of need. Boyfriend bother, annoying parents, needy friends – they all count on her, no matter what. But what about Anna, when does she get some time to navigate her world if she’s always putting other people first? When Anna is tasked with helping…
…I met a strange woman in a cave… When Ailsa moves in with her aunt and uncle on an island where ‘nothing exciting ever happens’, little does she know her life would soon change forever. With her mum unwell and being looked after by her concerned relatives, Ailsa spends most of her days exploring the…
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