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Under Fire by Sufiya Ahmed is out now!
Posted on August 28, 2025
Winner of The Best Crime Fiction Novel for Children 2025, Sufiya Ahmed’s latest novel for Bloomsbury, Under Fire is out now. Join 12-year-old Anglo-Indian boy Hasan in 1943, after his family’s life in Coventry is upturned during the Blitz and his parents send him to live with his grandpa in Calcutta. …
Mania: Tartan, Turmoil and My Life as a Bay City Roller by Stuart Wood is out now!
Posted on June 19, 2025
Stuart Wood’s love of music was ignited at fourteen when he, along with three schoolmates, formed a band. By the time he turned fifteen, he had left school to pursue a career as an electrician, blissfully unaware of the whirlwind that awaited him. Suddenly, he found himself living the life …
Sufiya Ahmed wins CrimeFest’s Best Crime Novel for Children (8-12)
Posted on May 20, 2025
Sufiya’s novel Rosie Raja: Undercover Codebreaker won CrimeFest’s Best Crime Novel for Children (8-12) at the weekend. The winning novel was Rosie’s second adventure, published by Bloomsbury. Sufiya is working on another book for Bloomsbury (not featuring Rosie) and we are very proud of her!
The new Famous Five adventure, Trouble at the Farm by Sufiya Ahmed is out now!
Posted on May 13, 2025
The Five are having fun planting vegetables on a farm. But when all of their hard work is ripped up out of the ground, it”s up to them to find the thief before even more food is stolen! There are some unbelievably cute animals in this story!
The paperback of The Long Water by Stef Penney is out now!
Posted on May 12, 2025
From the author of the magnificent historical epic, The Beasts of Paris, comes a chilling new thriller set in the haunting Arctic landscape of Norway. When popular teenager Daniel vanishes during spring celebrations in remote Nordland, his disappearance unleashes a cascade of secrets. As police uncover decades old human remains …