Writer and director Vicky Jenson tells us about her love of fairy tales and working with legendary composer Alan Menken on her new animated adventure Spellbound. Emily Watson and Olivia Williams tell ...

Mattinesh Jay’s family is in trouble, and his promise of an arranged marriage is the only thing sure to help them restore their fortunes. For Matti, the biggest challenge lies in making it to the ...

What is the secret of the most successful popular science books? There isn’t one, to tell the truth – but at the same time, it’s a formulation that works pretty well. Promise (ideally in the title) to ...

It was more than 30 years ago, at a time when few researchers were trained in how to condense science into sound bites, while staying true to the accuracy of their message. Today, that challenge ...

When I was 19 years old, in the early 1980s, I started writing a novel about the daughter of the first female United States president. I don’t think there has been a day since when I haven’t ...

As we do most every month here at Winter Is Coming, we've rounded up a bunch of the hottest fantasy and science fiction books hitting shelves this month (or ebook stores, it's a brave new world).

“This sleek ride of a novel further cements Phillips’s position as one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction,” said The New York Times. This is described as a “genre-bending ...

It is hard to mend a broken heart, but in a few years doctors might be able to do essentially that. Scientists are closing in on ways to help patients grow new heart muscle after a heart attack ...

Yet I believe that change is possible. One way to improve Americans’ trust in experts may be to stimulate their curiosity in science. Those who express elevated interest in new discoveries ...

A few years later, Games Workshop launched a science fiction version of the game, Warhammer 40k, where many of the fantasy races were re-imagined for a futuristic science fiction setting.

Ideal for KS1 & KS2 SATs practice, these high-quality comprehension worksheets from the Comprehension Ninja series are rich in vocabulary. The fiction worksheets cover a wide variety of genres, ...