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We are extremely sad to hear of the untimely passing of the legendary, but young Ricky Hatton.  His brilliance as a boxer, down-to-earth demeanour and live-wire sense of humour made him a national treasure. Our thoughts and sympathies are with his family and friends.

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. …

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’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 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!