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Shortlisted for the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2024Shortlisted for Yoto Carnegie Medal for IllustrationShortlisted for the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2024 – Discover.Living in a grey and dreary room in a house that couldn't feel less like home, April dreams about how life could be. With happy, peaceful spaces. And somewhere to play. But every seed April plants refuses to take root. And her dreams start to feel hopelessly out of reach.April's Garden is a story for anyone who, for whatever reason, fears that home is an impossible dream. And April reminds readers that even when things feel impossibly bleak, there's always something to hold on to. Hope.

Whilst searching for food in the snow-covered streets, Gaspard makes an astonishing discovery and, with the help of his friends, might just save Christmas. A heart-warming festive adventure for London's handsomest fox.

Shortlisted SLA's Information Awards 2023Highly Commended CLiPPA 2023Longlisted for UKLA Book Awards 2024Selected to form part of the Read for Empathy Collection 2024Choose Love is a cycle of poems that highlights the experience of those forced to become refugees. The core of the collection was written in 2018 as part of a project with the charity Refugee Trauma Initiative.With the permission of both individual refugees and aid workers, RTI shared with Nicola a number of true and poignant stories which were then used as the basis for short-form poems. Over the following years Nicola has added to this core of poems to create a coherent collection on the theme of forced migration, its wider causes and consequences.

Whilst searching for food in the snow-covered streets, Gaspard makes an astonishing discovery and, with the help of his friends, might just save Christmas. A heart-warming festive adventure for London's handsomest fox.