Children's Fiction

With the recent gale of ‘Twilight-mania’ that swept across the genre of teenage (and adult) fiction, it’s kind of an inevitable mind-track to think of vampires when the words ‘supernatural’; ‘high school’; and ‘small country village’ are combined. However, James Dawson makes a very successful detour from this assumed trajectory, [more...]

Imagine a country where everyone is the same; where individuality is slowly being eradicated, and all interaction with the outside world is blocked by a vast electrified dome. Sara Grant’s dystopian debut novel Dark Parties is set in our future, in a country which was sealed off from the rest [more...]

Viking Gold tells the tale of Redknee, a young sixteen year-old Viking, brought up by his uncle who is Jarl of the village. As Redknee struggles to live up to the fact that he will one day succeed his uncle and become Jarl, a raiding party come in search of [more...]

Eoin Colfer’s latest addition to his award-winning ‘Artemis Fowl’ series proved to be as popular as ever, winning the Children’s literature category in the 2011 IBW awards. Artemis Fowl is the most unlikely teenager to be found in fiction: a highly sophisticated individual, impeccably dressed, with an astonishing vocabulary, who just happens [more...]

Clare Wilson’s debut novel The Long Staff is the first book in the Staff Wielder series about the adventures of thirteen-year-old Tom MacKay. Published by Olida Publishing as children’s fiction with a Scottish flavour, it is a magical adventure book touching upon Scotland’s oral and written storytelling heritage. While visiting [more...]