Oxford children’s writer Sally Nicholls won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for her first novel, Ways to Live Forever. Her new book, All Fall Down (Scholastic, £7.99) (10-plus) is set in Yorkshire during the Black Death.

She will be at the Oxford Literary Festival on March 24, alongside Patrick Ness, Tim Bowler and Moira Young, discussing how writers tackle life and death issues when writing for the young, chaired by 19-year-old English student Rebecca Clee. See oxfordliteraryfestival.org or call 0870 343 1001.