Young-adult reads for August: Tough times in the real world and in the near futureNew YA titles from Yasmin Rahman and Tamsin Winter, and a debut novel from Rebecca HenrySun Aug 08 2021 - 06:00
YA titles for July: horror and hope in this month’s picksNew titles from Manjeet Mann, Sera Milano, Emily Barr and Goldy MoldavskyThu Jul 15 2021 - 06:00
Censorship and curation in children’s booksShould we clear shelves of legacy problems or just write more inclusive books?Tue Jun 29 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction: Love of all shapes amidst the ruinsPlus new titles from Nicola Yoon, Alice Oseman, Ciara Smyth and Jason CockcroftSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction: witches and aliens remind us teenagers are weirdBig themes and intriguing scenarios from established and new authorsSat May 15 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction round-up: Debut novel focuses on friendship and love after the TroublesPlus new titles from David Almond, Krystal Sutherland, Sara Barnard and Brian ConaghanThu Apr 22 2021 - 06:00
YA fiction: Jarlath Gregory’s novel isn’t just about love – it’s about hopePicks from Andy Robb, Mary HK Choi, Lize Meddings, Zoe Sugg and Amy McCullochTue Mar 23 2021 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: Picks for FebruaryWorks by CG Moore, Adiba Jaigirdar, Neal Shusterman, Flynn Meaney and Emily M DanforthWed Feb 24 2021 - 06:00
YA titles for January: How to be betterFrom the science of adolescent sleep to Angie Thomas’s return to Garden HeightsSat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
Angie Thomas: ‘I knew this book was going to be prime banning material’The Hate U Give author on teen sex, writing about the world pre-internet and young black fathersFri Jan 15 2021 - 06:00
YA Fiction: satisfying reads for DecemberPhilip Pullman’s heroine revisited, a thrilling Karen McManus mystery and much moreWed Dec 23 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: the best of 2020Claire Hennessy breaks down the best young adult fiction of the year by theme and tropeSat Dec 19 2020 - 05:21
YA fiction: Growing up black in the USFrom Dear Martin to Punching the Air – novels that prove the country is problematicWed Nov 25 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: Witches, goddesses and cheerleaders for HalloweenPlus new thrills from Finbar Hawkins, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Bill Konigsberg and Nikita GillSat Oct 24 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: Children of Lir’s Aífe tells her side of the storyDeirdre Sullivan and Anna Carey write Irish women in to the picture in compelling waysWed Sept 30 2020 - 06:00
The return of Edward Cullen, vampire and emotional abuserStephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun is 756 pages long, and it feels every bit of itTue Sept 01 2020 - 06:00
YA fiction: summer heartbreak, public shaming and reality-hoppingLatest novels from Meg Rosoff, Simon James Green, Lucy Cuthew and Patrick NeateSat Aug 01 2020 - 06:00
The best new young-adult fiction: The thrills and terrors of pilotingThe Gravity of Us brilliantly tackles several issues at once without a heavy-handed lectureFri Jul 10 2020 - 06:00
YA Fiction: Theatre, a Hunger Games prequel, and rabbitsNew books from E Lockhart, Juno Dawson, Suzanne Collins and Helen CorcoranSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: Prison, dragons, drama and a love letter to TolstoyThe story of a US president in her teens, and a trilogy on a plausible dystopian futureSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction round-up: reworking of Irish myth is a hitMarie-Louise Fitzpatrick hits the spot and an emotional war novel from Matt KilleenSat Apr 11 2020 - 06:00
Young adult round-up: Sheena Wilkinson’s historical novel is the final in a trilogyThe many worlds of young adult fiction from school stories to zombie apocalypsesSat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: February titles forgo romance in favour of feminismHomelessness, refuges, black eyes, gymnastic endeavour and funny ‘un-feminism’Sat Feb 15 2020 - 06:00
Young adult fiction: Delightful distractions for JanuaryJenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan’s Unpregnant wrests humour from an unlikely placeSat Jan 18 2020 - 06:00
Young adult books: smashing the sound of silenceRuta Sepetys deftly navigates Franco’s Spain while Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet is underwhelmingSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:00
Young adult fiction round-up: Holly Jackson’s gripping crime thrillerPlus great reads from Mary HK Choi, Erin Stewart and Jenny DownhamSat Nov 23 2019 - 06:00
Young adult books roundup: contender for 'best of 2019' listsBrian Conaghan, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman, Rainbow Rowell and MA BennettSat Oct 26 2019 - 06:00
Nuance and the danger of issues in young adult fictionNew work from Marcus Sedgwick, Shirley-Anne McMillan and Kit de WaalSat Sept 28 2019 - 06:00
YA fiction and poetry round-up: thought-provoking titles for teen readersAn exciting Nordic noir from Sif Sigmarsdóttir and a verse novel by poet Dean AttaSat Aug 31 2019 - 06:00
YA Fiction: Magical dive into teenagers facing Ireland’s hideous heritageEscaping comfort zones, a psychotic breakdown and the humble spud as colonial oppressorSat Aug 03 2019 - 06:00
Won’t somebody please think of the children?YA Fiction: Yasmin Rahman’s All The Things We Never Said, Meredith Russo’s Birthday and moreSat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
YA Fiction: American versus Irish takes on the teen novelPlus some classics from Gabrielle Moss, Kathleen Glasgow and Maureen DalySat Jun 08 2019 - 06:00
Labelling literature and getting on with it: Banshee journal publishes its first bookLucy Sweeney Byrne featured in first Banshee. Paris Syndrome will be their first bookTue May 14 2019 - 06:10
YA Fiction: poetry gives voice to tough topicsSarah Crossan and Laurie Halse Anderson use free-form verse, also a wartime secret revealedSat May 11 2019 - 06:00
YA Fiction: Siblings and Survival Feature In April’s PicksPlus new works from John Boyne, Sara Mara Griffin and C.G. DrewsSat Apr 13 2019 - 06:00
YA Fiction: Haunting dystopias and a return to boarding schoolNew young adult releases cover a range of topics from death to sexual confusionSat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
YA Fiction: From black poverty to a new vampire slayerAngie Thomas’s novel about what it means to be black, female and poor is powerfulSat Feb 16 2019 - 06:00
YA fiction reviews: Explore horrors of different kindsBooks by Chelsea Pitcher, Karen M McManus, David Owen, Lisa Williamson and Natasha NganSat Jan 19 2019 - 05:00
Rich and varied: The best young-adult fiction of 2018Year in Culture Review: Moby-Dick and Frankenstein given impressive YA reworkingsSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
YA fiction round-up: Laura Weymouth’s debut novel is ‘one of the finest novels I’ve read all year’The power and pain of fantasy worldsSat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
YA fiction round-up: topical tales of #MeToo and homelessnessPlus must-reads from Robert Muchamore, Alex Wheatle and Jason ReynoldsSat Oct 27 2018 - 06:00
The secret lives of writers (and their day jobs)Caitriona Lally, Rooney Prize winner, is a Trinity cleaner. How do other writers make ends meet?Fri Oct 05 2018 - 05:40
Young Adult round-up: Tina Callaghan’s debut horror novel for teensPlus, Patrick Ness has a whale of a time and Kody Keplinger examines life after a tragedySat Sept 29 2018 - 06:00
Witches, mermaids and masturbation: Louise O’Neill on her new novel for teenagers‘When I was young, I thought I was the only one of my friends who did that’Mon Sept 03 2018 - 06:18
New YA for the new school year: first loves and first murdersUnpredictable Melvin Burgess fantasy, and a nod to F Scott Fitzgerald and Jane AustenSat Sept 01 2018 - 06:00
Real stories for real teensAuthor and educator Kevin McDermott workshopped his new novel in Dublin schoolsTue Aug 21 2018 - 05:48
August’s recommended YA titles: sexuality, mental health and a kidnappingEmily M Danforth, Holly Bourne, Lydia Ruffles, Tom Pollock and Adam SilveraSat Aug 04 2018 - 06:00
British YA gets political: teen reads for JulyElsewhere, imaginary friendships and pending bereavement also provide starting pointsSat Jul 07 2018 - 06:00
June’s YA reads: Not quite beach readsMagnificent reads for older teens and some nonfiction for YA mental healthSat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
I wrote a novel about abortion – and couldn’t talk about itI hope my novel about being forced to travel for abortion will soon become historical fictionMon May 21 2018 - 17:14
