Best-selling children’s & #YAauthor YOUNG SAMURAI ⚔️ BODYGUARD 😎 GAMER 🎮 Series Selling over 3m 🌍 #MartialArtist🥋 My 🥇 goal → #GettingKidsReading
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22 Sep 2025
Leaping into action for anti-bullying charity Kidscape and the first stage of my 'method writing' for The Fall Kid - my next blockbuster, crime-busting, stunt-filled series @NosyCrow
My feet still haven't touched the ground! #skydive @GoSkydiveUK
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You know another exciting school tour is coming when you open the garage and it’s full of books 📚 #gettingkidsreading @NosyCrow @BarringtonStoke @PuffinBooks
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May 12
"You're making movies on paper!" BODYGUARD Fan😎
"Finding me hooked on a book is like seeing a unicorn, it just never happens. I usually hate reading, but by the 20th chapter of Hostage, I had already bought the entire series. I am absolutely hooked!"
JOB DONE! @puffinbooksuk
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Apr 20
SEA WOLF has landed! 🐺🌊
There’s no feeling like holding the first finished copies of a new adventure. The voyage to the edge of the world begins NOW! 🛡️⚔️
Huge thanks to @bigcatreading , @HarperCollinsCh , and the brilliant @EugeniaNobati for the stunning illustrations
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Apr 20
I’m already voting for the young reader with Lunar in their hands 🌖 🚀
Teachers and school librarians! Nominations are still open for The Barrington Stoke Reader of the Year Award. Open to UK pupils in Year 7 and 8, the award will recognise young people who have overcome challenge to discover the joy of reading. Learn more: bit.ly/3OAsVNg
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Apr 17
FROM YOUNG SAMURAI TO YOUNG VIKINGS! ⚔️
SEA WOLF is launched! Join Sven as he stows away on Leif Erikson’s longship for a voyage to the edge of the world. Raging storms! Sea monsters! Viking girls! Can Sven survive and prove himself a Viking?
@BigCatPublishing @HarperCollinsCh
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Chris Bradford retweeted
Are your young readers excited about space adventure in the wake of Artemis II's historic mission? Why not check out #SurvivalInSpace, David Long's gripping retelling of the astonishing Apollo 13 mission, or dive into #Lunar, @YoungSamurai's thrilling outer-space survival story🌕
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Apr 15
Filming this morning for my forthcoming appearance at TUB STOCK, the greatest boutique festival in Sussex 😁 🎤 📚 🥘
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Artemis II is off to the Moon! 🌕🚀
You can start your own lunar mission today with LUNAR - a high-stakes survival story on the moon’s surface where every breath counts. 🛰️👨🚀
Make the next giant leap into reading!
@BarringtonStoke #Artemis #Lunar #GoAllIn #NASA
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Mar 11
⚔️ THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR IS ALIVE! 🐉🔥
The training is complete. The blade is drawn. My books are coming to LIFE on tour to show young people that reading is the ultimate ADVENTURE. 📚💥
Get ready to #GoAllIn and unleash your inner samurai/ninja!
@PuffinBooks @BarringtonStoke
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My first Bodyguard show in a magnificent chapel at Hurstpierpoint College for World Book Day @puffinbooksuk
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Tour welcome sign 🪧 😁Now at Bristol Grammar School after a fab Bodyguard event at Clifton College 📚 @puffinbooksuk @barringtonstoke
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A table of books to sign for Willink School at start of my book tour. More pupils converted to readers! 📚 @barringtonstoke @puffinbooksuk @nosycrow
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T-minus zero! 🚀 to a 2-week Book Space Voyage to launch NOVA with @BarringtonStoke and ignite a love for reading across the galaxy! 🌌✨
It’s time to #GoAllIn for the National Year of Reading and #WorldBookDay @PuffinBooks @NosyCrow
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Feb 14
LAUNCHING AT NIXONS 🚀 Books already sold before countdown! Hurstpierpoint is about to rocket to the stars with NOVA 💫 @barringtonstoke @nixonsmusicandbooks
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Chris Bradford retweeted
NOVA is launched!🚀Happy publication to @YoungSamurai as the third instalment in his space adventure collection takes off from @HarperCollinsUK. Can Max navigate a whole galaxy of dangers to get back home? #Interstellar for young readers, NOVA is out now: collins.co.uk/products/97800…
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Chris Bradford retweeted
We have four fabulous books publishing today from @HelenRutterUK, Julia Christians, Melinda Salisbury, @YoungSamurai, Charlotte Grange, @sophiemckenzie_ and @MelaniaBadosa! Learn more about all four in the thread below 👇
ALT Cover images for Advice from a 12-Year-Old Nobody, Endgame, Nova and Escape
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Chris Bradford retweeted
Max is headed to Mercury with his father, a space trucker, when disaster strikes. Sucked into a wormhole, Max must navigate a galaxy of dangers to find his way home! @YoungSamurai crafts #Interstellar for kids in this space-bending survival story. bit.ly/3MDRsAd
ALT Cover image for Nova
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Feb 12
Hatchard’s bookshop stocking Young Samurai and Ninja since 1797!
Thanks for warm welcome and signing opportunity. Get your signed books now at Hachards! @barringtonstoke @puffinbooksuk @hatchardspiccadilly
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Feb 12
Wishing the very happiest of Book Birthdays to @YoungSamurai & Charlotte Grange for thrilling space adventure Nova 🚀
Out now for 9 readers from @BarringtonStoke
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Feb 12
Launching NOVA from the moon! 🌖 @piccadillywaterstones London - Grab signed copies now of ALL my books @barringtonstoke @puffinbooksuk @nosycrow
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