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We just love the WAITING FOR CALLBACK series. Why not check out our reviews of Waiting for Callback: Casting Queen and Waiting for Callback: Take Two?

We’ve also just published our interview with Perdita and Honor Cargill in which you can find out about Perdita’s spy writing period and how Honor juggles writing with Uni.

To celebrate the launch of the final instalment in the series, It’s a Wrap, we have an AMAZING giveaway of ALL THREE BOOKS!

Just check out the pinned post on our twitter profile: @MadgeReviews (closing noon on 10 June 2018)

We loved Tracey Mathias’s debut teen love story Night of the Party set in a scarily believable post-Brexit Britain. To celebrate it’s publication the lovely people at Scholastic have given us a copy to giveaway to one lucky winner.

Just check out the pinned post on our twitter profile: @MadgeReviews (closing date 5pm on 2 June 2018)

To find out more, why not read our interview with Tracey or check out our review of Night of the Party.

To celebrate taking part in our first blog tour, we’re giving away a signed copy of Kate Wiseman’s fun and fantastical middle-grade school story Gangster School.

Just check out the pinned post on our twitter profile: @MadgeReviews (closing date 5pm on 23 May 2018)

To find out more, why not read our interview with Kate or check out our review of Gangster School.

Now in its nineteenth year, the annual Branford Boase Award celebrates the most promising book for seven year-olds and upwards written by a first-time novelist and also highlights the importance of the editor in the development of new authors.

The shortlist for the 2018 was announced on Wednesday 2^nd May and includes:

• A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe, edited by Fiona Kennedy (Head of Zeus: Zephyr)
• The Starman and Me by Sharon Cohen, edited by Sarah Lambert (Quercus Children’s Books)
• Fish Boy by Chloe Daykin, edited by Leah Thaxton (Faber)
• Knighthood for Beginners by Elys Dolan, edited by Clare Whitston and Elv Moody (Oxford)
• Kick by Mitch Johnson, edited by Rebecca Hill and Becky Walker (Usborne)
• Potter’s Boy by Tony Mitton, edited by Anthony Hinton (David Fickling Books)
• The City of Secret Rivers by Jacob Sager Weinstein, edited by Gill Evans (Walker Books)

The winner of the 2018 Branford Boase Award will be announced on Wednesday 4^th July at a ceremony in London.

As HUGE fans of the Artemis Fowl series, we’re thrilled to hear that Disney-Hyperion in the US and HarperCollins in the UK have bought the rights to two new books in the Artemis Fowl world: the first book – The Fowl Twins – will be released in February 2020. We can’t wait!

Publisher Sarah Odedina will be leading a writer’s workshop in July (7^th and 8^th) and 10% of places will be FREE for aspiring writers from the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community.

Speakers include writers Malorie Blackman, Patrice Lawrence and Ele Fountain as well as Sarah Shaffi (editor-at-large at Little Tiger), David Stevens and Aimée Felone (founders of Knights Of publishing house) and literary agent Julia Churchill.

More information is available on the event’s website.