Every month we’ll have an author with us, ready to share with you, inspire you and chat with you. We’ll have a Q&A with them, review their books, hear what they loved to read when they were younger, along with blog posts on anything they’d like to talk about.

It was great to have Barbara Mitchelhill with us in April – thanks Barbara! To find all of her posts with us, simply use the search box on the right.

Onto April, and we have Frances Hardinge with us  - welcome Frances! We’ll soon be bringing you our Q&A with Frances and a review of her book A Face Like Glass! Watch this space…

In the meantime, Frances tells us about her favourite childhood books…

If I had to pick the five books that I loved most during my own childhood, it would probably be these:

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Smith by Leon Garfield

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Elidor by Alan Garner

A Hundred and One Dalmations and the Moominland stories probably deserve an honorable mention, however.