Interviews with YA authors Diana Anyakwo and Denise Brown

In this episode we talk to Diana Anyakwo about her book My Life as a Chameleon which has just been longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards. We also talk to Denise Brown about her second book, It All Started with a Lie.

Diana Anyakwo

My Life as a Chameleon

Contact for school visits: https://contactanauthor.co.uk/author/3518/diana-anyakwo

Instagram @dianaanyakwo

Books Mentioned

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence, Mishal Husain

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Malory Towers, Enid Blyton

Denise Brown

It All Started with a Lie

I am Winter

Website: https://www.denisebrownauthor.co.uk/

Instagram @denisebrownuk

Books Mentioned

What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge

Books mentioned in book chat

The Summer Dare, Joanna Dodd

Murder on a School Night, Kate Weston

How to Die Famous, Benjamin Dean

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,Gabrielle Zevin

100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Cafe, Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada

Songlight, Moira Buffini

The Girl who Couldn’t Lie, Radhika Sanghani

King of Nothing, Nathanael Lessore

Boy Overboard, Morris Gleitzman

The Secret of Golden Island, Natasha Farrant

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In this episode we talk to Tom Palmer about his latest book Angel of Grasmere and his other Lake District books. Plus we talk to Deborah Maclaren, the Managing Director of Love Reading about how they are building a social purpose into their book selling.

Tom Palmer’s Lake District books

Armistice Runner

After the War

Angel of Grasmere

Other books mentioned

Arctic Star

D-Day Dog

Resist

Information on all Tom Palmer’s books can be found on his website

Tom can be found on Twitter @tompalmerauthor

LoveReading4Kids - information about how their donations work can be found here and on how to set up wish lists here

Books mentioned by Deborah:

Stig of the Dump by Clive King

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter

The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival

The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow

Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher

Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem

Give Away

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Full T&Cs here

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Film Clubs and books with Into Film Ambassador Charlotte Harrison plus an interview with author Ross Montgomery about his new book, I am Rebel

Charlotte Harrison can be found on social media: @sometimesmovies

Find out more about Into Film here.

Books mentioned:

Princess Bride, by William Goldman

Ross Montgomery can be found on social media: @mossmontmomery

His website is here

Books mentioned:

I am Rebel

The Chime Seekers

And Ross’s other books can be found here

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