Dark Matter

A chilling ghost story from Michelle Paver. 'Soul Eater', from her 'Chronicles of Ancient Darkness' series, showed her love of the Arctic and this latest adult novel is set in the same surroundings. A superb read - full of menace but also subtle and evocative. More details and trailer at: http://www.michellepaver.com/dark-matter-is-published

Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2011

The shortlist for this year's Waterstone's Children's Book Prize was announced last week. There are some very strong contenders this year. Have a look at the nominations by clicking on the banner.

The winner will be announced on 9th February.

Crime Reading

A new blog to celebrate crime fiction for teen readers has just been launched. Find out about new books, leave your comments and reviews, read interviews with authors and much more.

http://crimereading.blogspot.com/

Read Write Excite

The Carnegie Medal winning author Teresa Breslin has set a competition for Secondary School pupils on the theme of 'CONFLICT'.

Stories should be no longer that 1000 words.

Find out more about the competition and about Theresa's books at:

http://www.readwriteexcite.co.uk/aboutsecondary.html

World Book Night

Love books? You can give them away free to friends and family. One million free books are going to be given away by 20,000 passionate readers as part of World Book Night. Read more about the scheme here:
http://www.worldbooknight.org/

World Book Night is also on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/worldbooknight