This Friday, our newsletter will contain an absolutely BRILLIANT giveaway! Sign up now for your chance to win a paperback copy of Josie Jaffrey’s YA historical fantasy, The Wolf and the Water, plus a fantastic pin badge and bookmark, AND a signed paperback copy of Battle Ground, plus an orange camo buff-style scarf and official …
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(YA) indicates a Young Adult book (approx. 13-20 age range) (YABC) indicates one of our official YA Book Club choices (Mid Grade) indicates a book for the 8-12 age range (Re-read) something I’ve read before – probably 20+ years ago (Re-re-read) self explanatory, in context (ARC) indicates an Advance Reading Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an …
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Happy New Year from Taller Books! It feels great to say goodbye to 2020, and there is plenty to look forward to in 2021! We’ll be publishing a tie-in novel in the Battle Ground Series, and a book of Battle Ground short fiction. We’re close to a final draft for both books, and we’ll be …
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It seems impossible that Battle Ground was launched an entire year ago, but it’s true! To celebrate, we’re giving the Kindle edition away FREE today. We’ve had an eventful year! We’ve published the rest of the Battle Ground Series, we’ve won an award for Battle Ground, and we’ve enjoyed meeting readers at YALC, Literature Festivals, …
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The Battle Ground series is set in a dystopian near-future UK, after Brexit and Scottish independence. … Looking for an award-winning dystopia? Prefer die-for-each-other friendships to romance? Like your YA with a relevant political twist? The Battle Ground Series is a friendship-based survival story with a strong female lead, a strong female antagonist, and an all-too-real near-future …
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Welcome to Taller Books – the home of innovative and original Young Adult fiction. We’re thrilled that Angels, our new UKYA novel, is a finalist in the 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards and a semi-finalist in the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award 2024! It’s the LGBTQ+ YA story you’ve been waiting for: friendship, …
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More Fighting Back reviews > < Reviews of Darkest Hour Back to Praise for the Battle Ground series
More Darkest Hour reviews > < Reviews of False Flag Back to Praise for the Battle Ground series
A huge THANK YOU from Taller Books to everyone who has supported, promoted, and enjoyed the Battle Ground Series. It has taken two years, two months and nine days, but all five books and the prequel novella are now out in the wild. At risk of sounding like an Oscar winner, there are some people …
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