Author: Robin Brooks

Mix Agatha Christie with ‘The Hunger Games’ and you get ‘Then There Was One’ by Wendy Cross, a smart SciFi thriller for Young Adult readers.

‘Factopia’ is back, and this time it’s EPIC! It contains 400 hundred whopping great facts for children to marvel at, all linked in a continuous chain.

‘Shrapnel Boys’ by Jenny Pearson is a pitch-perfect children’s WW2 novel that looks at small scale conflicts in a city under bombardment.

‘Time Shelter’ by Georgi Gospodinov is a prizewinning novel that examines the allure of the past and perils of hankering after it.

‘The Burning Stones’ is the new Scandi crime novel written by the author of the ‘Rabbit Factor’ books. Once gain we have a humorous but compelling mystery on our hands.

‘Down in the Sea of Angels’ by Khan Wong is a warm science fiction tale that examines the power of history and the strength of humanity.

‘Under a Fire-Red Sky’ by Geraldine McCaughrean is children’s World War 2 fiction of the very highest order.

Follow up to ‘I am Wolf,’ ‘I am Raven’ by Alastair Chisholm delivers an implacable post-apocalyptic enemy to confront the young crew of Cub

‘The Other People’ by C.B. Everett is a smart ‘And Then There Were None” style thriller with a dark twist.

‘Space Brooms’ by A.G. Rodriguez is a found family Solar System adventure. Full of heart, laughs and alien gangsters.

‘All Better Now’ by Neal Shusterman asks what the world would do if there was a pandemic of happiness?

‘Blacklight Born’ concludes the ‘Combat Codes’ trilogy. Books that punch hard both emotionally and in their awesome fight scenes.

‘The Morrigan’ by Kim Curran is a sumptuous retelling of Irish myth. It’s a modern fable that rails against strong men who persecute the weak

‘Hunt for the Golden Scarab’ is the excellent first book in an exciting new time travel series for middle grade readers.