Laura Bloom

Without a saddle or bridle, all that’s left is the truth. Dream Riders is an exciting new middle-grade series about horses, friendship, and being true to yourself. Frankie's dream is more like a nightmare when her new horse turns out to be Zen – a shaggy, disobedient clown of a pony, who will totally wreck her chances of fitting in...

Without a saddle or bridle, all that’s left is the truth. Dream Riders is an exciting new middle-grade series about horses, friendship, and being true to yourself. When Shannon (the horse whisperer) takes the Dream Riders on a trip to the Brumby Rescue Centre to pick out a wild horse to train, Kai decides to go too. He's not that...

There's plenty of depth to Bloom's characters, who are smart, funny and relatable in today's modern world. The Courier-Mail It's 1977, and bohemian Libby - stay-at-home mother, genius entertainer and gifted cook - is lonely. When she meets Carol, recently emigrated from London with her controlling husband, and Anna, who loves her career but not her marriage, the three women...

Welcome to Solace Springs... Dumped for being 'too boring' and fired in the same week, Londoner Sophie Bennet decides she's done playing it safe. After one too many glasses of wine, she launches a crowdfunding campaign called "Help a Boring Girl Buy a Bookshop." When it unexpectedly goes viral, she trades city chaos for cherry-blossom season in Solace Springs, Washington,...

The inn of her dreams is for sale. The only obstacle? The man who wants it too. Grace Sullivan has been brewing perfect lattes and biting her tongue for years at her mother's café, but she's done being the dutiful daughter. When the historic inn on Maple Island goes up for sale, she sees her chance to build something of...

Without a saddle or bridle, all that’s left is the truth. Dream Riders is an exciting new middle-grade series about horses, friendship and being true to yourself. Living in a remote reach of The Pocket, twelve-year-old Storm is a hippy home-schooler Medievalist who knows almost nothing about the modern world. After taking out the archery prize at the local show,...