Gather up your devices, turn down the lights, and prepare to be afraid. Monster is a new immersive horror drama written by the brilliant Brad Birch which explores what happens when the dead return looking for answers and someone to blame.

Using innovative audio technology, this unique...

Jane Casey and Caoilinn Hughes have been shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2020.

High Strangeness is a brand new Audible Original comedy-drama written and created by the wonderful Will Maclean . Available now exclusively on Audible in the US and the UK, free to Audible members at audible.co.uk/strangeness

You can hear the trailer here .

Happy publication day to Philip Pullman and SERPENTINE - a brand new adventure set in the world of His Dark Materials. SERPENTINE was originally written for a charity auction and was not intended for publication. It deals with events between Lyra and Pan set after THE AMBER SPYGLASS. Illustrated throughout...

Quentin Blake's 1998 picturebook CLOWN is to be turned into an animation by Channel Four which will be narrated by Oscar and BAFTA winning actress Helena Bonham Carter. The half hour animation is being produced by Eagle Eye Drama and broadcast on Channel Four on Christmas day. CLOWN's publishers, Puffin,...

Quentin Blake and the Roald Dahl Story Company have been nominated for three awards at the Licensing Awards 2020 in recognition of the success of three of their joint ventures. The Natural History Museum Extraordinary Explorers Campaign at Marks and Spencers is nominated for Best Licensed Retail Marketing Initiative, Roald...

In celebration of Black British Month, both behind and in front of the camera, Netflix have launched an initiative, releasing titles by and with Black voices to their platform this month.

Congratulations to John Lanchester whose short story collection REALITY AND OTHER STORIES is published today by Faber. John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny...

Congratulations to Nick Lake whose latest children's book LOCKED OUT LILY is to be published by Scholastic in September 2021, with a second novel to come in 2022. The 'delightfully eerie' LOCKED OUT LILY is to be illustrated by Emily Gravett. More news here .