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Anticipation building…

  • Post author By kaiash
  • Post date 8 February 2026
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What a buzz to see The Boy Maeve on Reading’s list of highly anticipated YA books coming out in 2026!

The Boy Maeve is coming soon! / Tha The Boy Maeve a’ tighinn a dh’aithghearr!

  • Post author By kaiash
  • Post date 23 December 2025
The front cover of The Boy Maeve showing a red-headed white boy kneeling on the ground holding a dirk as flames sprout from his skin and three black birds circle above him.

He only knows two things for sure: his name is Maeve and he’s a boy.

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I am very excited to announce that The Boy Maeve will be coming to a bookshop near you in June 2026! It also has a brilliant new cover design by Janelle Barone.

Find out more on Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing’s website.

A first post

  • Post author By kaiash
  • Post date 2 May 2023
A coloured illustration from an old fairy tale showing a troll sitting by a closed doorway into a mountain. Perhaps they are guarding it. There are two vast tree trunks framing either side of the image.
“Bergaporten” [Mountain Gate], by John Bauer (1918), taken from Wikimedia Commons.
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