WRITER AND PUBLISHER
Mike Gould
'Quick Reads' work: more news.
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Following the success of the six titles published in 2025, I'm now working for the 'Reading Agency' on six new titles for as their Literacy Editor. 'Quick Reads' are abridged or original short works of fiction or nonfiction by well-known authors. Due to publish early in 2026!
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You can check out the 'Quick Reads' programme here and learn more about what the 'Reading Agency' does.
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In addition, I am priviledged to have been asked to abridge a collection of stories by Booker Prize authors due to be published as part of the 'Quick Reads' programme: more to come on this soon.
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Educational publishing
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My educational writing continues with the imminent publication in 2026 of three major projects. These include new editions of an A level textbook for Cambridge University Press, and two new textbooks and supporting resources for AS General English and IGCSE Literature for Harper Collins. Busy times!
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Science for primary schools; English for secondary!
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Check out all four 'Big Cat' titles which are now available from Harper Collins for primary age readers: 'The Amazing Auroras' ,'Zombie Wasps', 'Fire-nado', about wildfires around the world, and 'Maggot on the Menu', about the taste for insects as food.
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Very excited to see these in primary school classrooms!
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Caught in the Fire
Caught in the Fire, my third short novel for Delta Publishing, has just been published, following hot on the heels from The Colour of Truth. While the latter told the story of a girl planning to sabotage a seaside mural as she suffered from home problems, the latest title addresses much wider, global concerns - namely our warming temperatures. The novel focuses on the wildfires that have swept Australia in recent years and one boy's attempts to escape them. It shares similar themes to my YA novel (yet to be published) called The Storm Chasers' Daughter and is another work which focuses on my interest in the climate crisis, also seen in my Big Cat primary book called Firenado.
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