Her Majesty's Royal Coven' won the 2022 Books Are My Bag Reader's Award for Best Fiction. [ citation needed] Works [ edit ] I truly think the first novel in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series is a perfect book. I’ve read it about four times. Is it original? No, not especially, but what’s not to love? It riffs on Greek mythology; it’s a satire of reality TV; it tears along at a ferocious pace, and made me sob like a baby. Now I want to read it again.

Rukmini Iyer legitimately transformed my life with her Roasting Tin books. I learned what flavours go together well and also that cooking doesn’t need to be neat and tidy. You just need a big tin and an oven. And cumin. Always cumin.

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Hilliard parents debate banning book from school libraries". NBC4. 14 March 2023 . Retrieved 1 May 2023. Hawkes, Rebecca (14 October 2015). "YA author James Dawson: 'I'm becoming a transgender woman' ". The Telegraph . Retrieved 31 July 2017. Find the hottest teen books, connect with your favorite YA authors and meet new friends who share your reading interests! In 2015, Dawson came out as a transgender woman, having begun her journey of transitioning 18 months prior. She began hormonal transition in early 2016. [7] [10] She was signed to write a column in Glamour magazine documenting her experience of transitioning. [11] She represents the LGBT charity Stonewall as a School Role Model. [1] Dawson sat on the judging panel for the 2016 BBC Young Writers' Award. [12]

This Book is Gay has faced controversy since its publication. In November of 2014, residents of Wasilla, Alaska petitioned to remove the book from a public library, with a number of residents objecting to profanity and sexually explicit content. [19] Dawson responded by saying the event highlighted how "there is still such small-mindedness and hatred left to contend with." [20] In 2022, it was listed among 52 books banned by the Alpine School District following the implementation of Utah law H.B. 374, "Sensitive Materials In Schools." [21] Ultimately, it tied for the tenth-most banned and challenged books in the United States that year, according to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. [22] The Gender Games (2017) [ edit ] The brilliant and fast-paced second contemporary political fantasy in Dawson's HMRC trilogy...Magic seamlessly weaves with pop culture references, fun soap-operatic twists, and an incisive look at the psychology of violent misogyny. This is the work of a master storyteller." — Publisher's Weekly (starred review) a b Taylor, Marianne (28 May 2017). " 'Transition is exhausting. No-one does it to be trendy': Author Juno Dawson on her new book The Gender Games". The Herald . Retrieved 31 July 2017. In 2018, Dawson wrote the BBC Sounds spin-off podcast Doctor Who: Redacted, which launched in April 2022. [13] She has also contributed audio plays for the Big Finish Torchwood range. Dawson was supposed to write an episode for the second series of Class, but the show was cancelled. [14] And then there’s the small matter of Dabney Hale: freshly escaped from Grierlings prison, he’s on the hunt for a mythical object that will give him unimaginable power. Leonie’s brother is on the trail, but doesn’t know the danger he now faces, and so she sets off to bring him home and bring Hale to justice.Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquerades as the benevolent witch as Her Majesty’s Royal Coven prepares to crown her High Preistess.