The 2026 Kids & Teen Summer Book Club Launch!

Alastair Chisholm Author

Alastair Chisholm is the author of sci-fi adventures Orion Lost, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, Adam-2, Reek, and I Am Wolf, long-listed for the Carnegie medal, as well as the Dragon Storm chapter books, and picture books including Inch and Grub, winner of the Queen’s Knickers Award. 

He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and family and their dog Whisky, and his hobbies include writing and playing games on his phone when he should be writing. He likes biscuits.

Nadine Aisha Jassat Author

Nadine Aisha Jassat grew up between the magic of her family’s stories and the pages of her beloved library books. An award-winning writer, she is the author of poetry collection Let Me Tell You This, as well as three middle-grade mysteries full of heart: The Stories Grandma Forgot (And How I Found Them), The Hidden Story of Estie Noor, which was nominated for a Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize, and The House at The Edge of the World ('Charismatic, enchanting' - The Guardian). Her writing is taught around the world, and poetry from Let Me Tell You This is part of Scotland’s secondary school syllabus.When she is not writing, you can find her teaching workshops, reading books, and going on adventures.

Nadine lives in Scotland, and grew up in the north of England with her Yorkshire mum and Zimbabwean dad. She is of mixed heritage; a heritage which can only be told in stories.

Edward Ross Author

Edward Ross is an Edinburgh based comic creator, working primarily in non-fiction. He’s been stapling together bits of paper and drawing comics in them since childhood. After university he took his passion for film and combined it with his love of comics to create his first book, Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film. He’s since released Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming, and Graphic Novel Builder: The Illustrated Guide to Making Your Own Comics. He also works on science communication comics for labs and research bodies around the world.

Sibéal Pounder Author

Sibéal Pounder is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of the much-loved and highly successful children’s fiction series Witch Wars, Bad Mermaids and Neon’s Secret Universe, and the Christmas hit Tinsel. She has also written Beyond Platform 13, the sequel to The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson, and the novelisation of the film Wonka. Her World Book Day book Bad Mermaids Meet the Witches was a Sunday Times bestseller, and Witch Wars was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award.