34: Summer Reads, Brighton Book Festival, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, The West Hill Writers and Laura Kay
It’s our Summer Reads Special and we have a jam-packed episode for you this month, full of fabulous book recommendations from Caitlin Gleeson at City Books, a great interview with Laura Kay about her Brighton-based new book TELL ME EVERYTHING, a chat with Carolynn Bain about Brighton’s very own Boo…
Sunny Singh
It’s our great pleasure to welcome onto the podcast this week writer, journalist, and academic Sunny Singh.
Sunny was born in Varanasi, India and went on to study in India, the USA, and Spain. Her first book, published in the year 2000, was the prize-winning Nani’s Book of Suicides. She has since …
277: Yoto Carnegie Medal Ceremony: Yusef Salaam, Jason Reynolds and the winner!
This week we're coming from The British Library, and the award ceremony for this year’s Yoto Carnegie Medal.Yusef Salaam tells us about his experience as a member of the Exonerated Five and how it fed into 'Punching the Air'.We go back to 2021 winner, Jason Reynolds, who examines the walk home from…
Episode #72: Manjeet Mann!
Author Manjeet Mann sits down with the Booklings to discuss her Carnegie shortlisted novel, Run, Rebel!
Superstar librarian Kelly Greenwood picks her Top Five Reads Of The Year
Superstar librarian Kelly Greenwood joins Sara for a natter about working in libraries and being a children's book specialist.
She gives us her Top Five Reads Of The Year (so far) and also talks about being on our Book Club panel.
Her picks are:
Roar by Manjeet Mann
You Could Be So Pretty by Hol…
The Carnegies 2026
Superstar librarian, Stella Hine, joins Sara for a chat about this year's Carnegie Awards (the UK's longest-running children's book awards)
She also shares her top five reads of the year (so far) which is a mixture of non-fiction, fiction - and children's books (as you might expect)
Her choices ar…
Manjeet Mann in conversation with Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari talks to Manjeet Mann about her career as an actress, playwright and novelist. Manjeet Mann in conversation with Sita Brahmachari is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk
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