Small! by Hannah Moffatt shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Waterstones says ‘Spectacularly silly and utterly lovable, Moffatt’s madcap story about a boy on stilts…
Everything with Words is an independent publisher of literary fiction
Everything with Words publishes literary fiction for children and adults. We began publishing fiction for children in 2017 and literary fiction for adults in 2020. Our books have been picked as books of the year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, FT, Observer, Spectator and Telegraph, and won or been short listed for prestigious prizes.
We only publish fiction. We publish high quality, innovative, engaging fiction for both children and adults. We are open to submission from both agents and authors. We do NOT publish PICTURE BOOKS, children’s books with a strong moral or didactic aim, adult fantasy or crime. We do not publish chapter books for children or children’s books that are less than forty thousand words. We try to respond to every query but we do receive a lot of submissions.
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A whirlwind of a story with talking tigers, a knitting elephant and a sinister monkey. In the Kingdom of Broken Magic, who can you trust? People are disappearing from the circus! ...
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The hilarious sequel to Small! But you need no previous knowledge to enjoy this comic gem full of vampires, werewolves and evil tooth fairies. Praise for Small! 'Riotous fun' -Amanda Craig, New Statesman 'Funny and yucky...likely to be a hit read aloud' Sunday Times Book of the Week 'A GIANT ...
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When her parents disappear, 12 -year-old Raven McKay is put into foster care with Kitty Stromsoe in the town of Grave’s Pass. It’s not an ordinary town. It’s a town where the living and the dead live side by side, but few wear their identity on their sleeves. All her ...
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Berlin, 1948. A city besieged. A boy reaches for the sky. Otto Hartmann would do anything to be a pilot. With Berlin blockaded by the Soviets, the Americans fly to the rescue and Otto’s captivated by the matinee-idol pilots dropping chocolate for the city’s hungry kids. But never mind the ...
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Everything can seem possible on a London bus—there is something invigorating about being surrounded by strangers. You are on the 13, North London, heading for Boundary Road and no one is travelling light. Everyone has got something to share: love, desires, illusions and sometimes a touch of madness but two ...
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Featured author
Eve McDonnell
The Chestnut Roaster
October 22nd 2022
Eve comes from Wexford in Ireland. She’s a painter and writer and has a very special way with words, a fine lyrical, painterly touch. She’s a writer who immerses herself in her subject so that the reader feels that they are on an exciting sensory journey through Paris in 1888. ‘Fancy a weekend in Paris without having to leave the sofa? Well, voilà! Although this is not a mini-break with Monoprix and macarons, but a ticket to the dark heart of the belle époque. Rather than the bright City of Lights, expect a magic-realist underground where gifted children are stolen and locked in the airless tunnels that lie beneath. Eve McDonnell’s intriguing story is less of a Time Out guide (although she takes us from one arrondissement to the next), more The Hunchback of Notre-Dame meets Labyrinth’
A Guardian Book of the Year
