This debut novel by Beth Lincoln – a graduate of a writers’ mentoring programme run by the publisher Random House – is no exception. Our heroine is Shenanigan Swift, whose family has ...

The Swifts is technically not Beth Lincoln’s authorial debut. As a child she penned a “thinly veiled rewrite” of the “Riddles in the Dark” chapter from The Hobbit, which was published in ...

Fiona Noble is the former Children's & YA Previews Editor of The Bookseller. Murder mystery, Gothic charm and masterful wordplay converge in Beth Lincoln’s début children’s book, which ...

The sight only made Shenanigan laugh harder. Excerpted with permission from The Swifts, Beth Lincoln, illustrations by Claire Powell, Puffin.

This year the overall winner is "The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels" by Beth Lincoln and illustrated by Clarie Powell. ... Alyssa Lunsford-Stevens Barnes & Noble has released its 2023 children ...

In Beth Lincoln’s début children’s book, The Swifts, out in paperback in January, tradition dictates that on the day each Swift family member is born, the sacred family dictionary is ...