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Sarah Holding

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Sarah Holding is a full-time children's and YA author based in the UK and Japan.

Sarah's latest offering 'Road to True North', a YA novel about an ill-fated roadtrip around Iceland, came out in September 2025.

Her fictional debut 'SeaBEAN', a best-selling time travel adventure trilogy, is regarded as a leading 'cli-fi' text, and is being taught in primary schools across the UK and around the world.

'CHAMELEON', her first YA novel published in 2020, is set during the fall of Atlantis.

Her second YA novel 'blackloop', an edgy coming-of-age sci-fi romance, came out in 2023.

Sarah's first collection of poems, 'How to Write a Poem', which was written during lockdown, came out in 2021.

Sarah has given over 300 author-led creative writing workshop ...more

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Average rating: 4.42 · 103 ratings · 48 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	SeaBEAN (SeaBEAN Trilogy #1) 3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Road to True North 4.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	blackloop 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CHAMELEON 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SeaWAR (SeaBEAN Trilogy #2) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SeaRISE (SeaBEAN Trilogy #3) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The SeaBEAN Trilogy 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write a Poem it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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There’s a special dynamic, creative energy during the year of the horse, but every 60 years it gets even wilder – ie when it’s a firehorse year – aka 2026! I’m taking this opportunity to generate a bunch of new projects with new people in new places and to be open to anything that comes my way.

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SeaBEAN Trilogy (3 books)
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The Claude Glass

by Tom Bullough

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England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive

by Sue Clifford

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The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

by Hilary Mantel

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