Bronte Coates
Bronte Coates is the former digital content manager and Readings prize manager.
Blog post — 27 Jun 2018
A round-up of terrific picture books from April to June
Earlier this year, I shared my favourite picture books from the first three months of the year. Here are 11 more picture books I’ve loved this year, all published from…
Blog post — 24 May 2018
Picture books that celebrate naughty behaviour
Be warned! These fun, charming, hilarious picture books may inadvertently encourage naughty behaviour…
Errol! by Zanni Louise & Philip Bunting
Meet Errol, a stubborn red-beanie-wearing penguin. When Errol’s mum calls…
Review — 27 Mar 2017
American War by Omar El Akkad
Set in the near-distant future, a contentious fossil fuels bill ignites a second American civil war. What follows is brutal and bloody, and rings with the familiar. Unmanned drones patrol…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing is an intensely lyrical, bruising novel. Jesmyn Ward writes the kind of sumptuous prose in which every line thrills you with its poetry – even the rippling…
Review — 25 Mar 2018
Blue Planet II
Seventeen years have passed since the BBC released the original Blue Planet nature documentary. Described as the first-ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world’s oceans, it was…
Blog post — 3 Apr 2018
A quarterly round-up of the best new picture books
Picture book devotee Bronte Coates shares some of her favourite titles to be released in the first three months of 2018.
Go Go and the Silver Shoes by Jane Godwin…
Blog post — 27 Feb 2018
Romance novels to fall in love with
My sister got me onto reading romance novels by virtue of our shared bookshelves. Thanks to her eclectic taste and talent for browsing second-hand bookstores, I read my way through…
Blog post — 24 Jan 2018
Six crime novels I love
Online bookseller Bronte Coates shares the six crime novels she finds herself recommending to other people the most.
For a twisty psychological thriller…
The Secret Place by Tana French
I…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
White Night by Ellie Marney
Award-winning author Ellie Marney delivers another cracking page-turner in White Night. Fans of her earlier books will find much to love here, as will anyone who enjoys a juicy…
Blog post — 7 Dec 2017
24 more picture books I loved this year
Earlier this year I shared 24 picture books that I was loving. Here are 24 more titles to add to your shelves…
Petra by Marianna Coppo
Meet Petra. She’s a…