Fiona Noble
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Nov 29, 2024 |
thebookseller.com | Fiona Noble
“What if a girl who can remember that she was murdered in a past life wants revenge in this one?” This single line from Laura Steven’s writing journal in 2017 was the idea that sparked Our Infinite Fates, her new YA novel which will be published by Penguin in February 2025. “I knew it was really compelling, that it was a really strong pitch,” Steven tells me over video call, but for a long time she struggled to find her way into the story.
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Nov 12, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Fiona Noble
Liz Hyder won the older readers’ category in the Waterstones children’s book prize for her memorable debut Bearmouth. Now, in The Twelve (Pushkin), Kit and her friend Story must travel back in time to find Kit’s sister, who goes missing close to an ancient stone circle on the eve of the winter solstice. Channelling the dark menace of classic British fantasy writers such as Susan Cooper and Alan Garner, this is a beguiling tale of ancient magic, good and evil, deeply rooted in the Welsh landscape.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
thebookseller.com | Fiona Noble
“Coming from fandom, I’m very aware of how people fall in love through words alone,” Cynthia So tells me, speaking on video call from their London home. Falling in love online was an idea explored in their debut, If You Still Recognise Me, and one they were keen to explore further in their second book, This Feast of a Life, which will be published by Little Tiger Press in January. So explains that readers always raved about the food in their debut, so they began to play with that idea.
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Aug 18, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Fiona Noble
Playwright and screenwriter Moira Buffini makes her young adult debut with Songlight (Faber) In a post-apocalyptic future an advanced form of telepathy has emerged; anyone found with this sixth sense, however, is hunted and persecuted as an “unhuman”. Kaira and Elsa have lived their lives in great danger, concealing their abilities in order to survive, but when they connect telepathically an extraordinary bond is formed.
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Jul 26, 2024 |
thebookseller.com | Fiona Noble
Gritty gangland crime writing is not the most obvious route into children’s books agrees author Jacqui Rose, laughing as we talk over video call. The author of more than 14 urban thrillers, she has just dashed back to London from Kent for our interview, where she has been tending to her horse who is ill with a cough.
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