Lucy Powrie

Hello! I’m Lucy Powrie, author of The Paper & Hearts Society series.

Lucy Powrie

Lucy Powrie is the author of The Paper & Hearts Society series, published by Hodder Children’s Books. Her next book, and the final book in the series, Bookishly Ever After, will be published in May 2021.


Lucy is also known for her YouTube channel, lucythereader, where she discusses her favourite books. To date, she has over 40,000 subscribers, and in 2020 founded the #ClassicsCommunity.


She lives in the South West of England, near Bath, with her three dogs and small herd of guinea pigs, and is currently studying towards a degree in History with the Open University.

MY BOOKS

The Paper & Hearts Society
Read with Pride
Bookishly Ever After

  • A warm-hearted, intensely compassionate look at a group of queer teenager bookworms fighting for equality in their school library.

    Lauren James, author of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe

  • The perfect book for bookworms, and should be read by anyone and everyone who is not (or is) ashamed to be a bit of a book nerd

    Ruby Granger, YouTuber

  • An absolute delight

    The Bookseller

  • A sweet and joyful story about friendship and celebrating your passions…

    Alice Oseman, author of Heartstopper

  • The most absolutely perfect ending to this wonderful series ... this book is literally HILARIOUS.

    Yasmin Rahman, author of All The Things We Never Said

  • All readers will relish in this rainbow bookish delight of this book. That’s why every teenager needs to read [it]. At it’s very core has the message we all need to hear, find your people and read with pride.

    Emma, blogger at Never Judge a Book by Its Cover - https://neverjudgeabookbyitscover.co.uk/2020/05/book-review-the-paper-and-hearts-society-read-with-pride-by-lucy-powrie.html

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Read My Blog

I am SO excited to reveal the cover of the final book in the Paper & Hearts Society today, Bookishly Ever After! Out 13th May, it is quite possibly my favourite book in the series and I can’t wait for readers to finally be able...

March 25, 2021

Introducing my new YouTube channel! Hello everyone! I’m really excited to share with you today the first video on my brand new YouTube channel, where I’ll be sharing exclusive content and behind the scenes sneak peeks of my books. In the next few months, expect...

February 20, 2021

It feels like yesterday that my first book, The Paper & Hearts Society, was released – but today I’m here to share with you the gorgeous cover for the sequel, Read with Pride! I’ve been busy working on Olivia’s story for the past year, and am...

April 17, 2020

Hello, everyone! I am super excited to be able to share with you the return of #UKYAChat! For those of you who may not know, #UKYAChat is a Twitter chat that I first founded and hosted in 2013 — so we’re in our seventh year...

April 10, 2020

There are so many books that I’m excited to read at the moment that will be released in the next few months — so I thought I would share some of them with you today, so that hopefully you will be just as excited as...

April 8, 2020

Hello and welcome to lucythereader.com! My name is Lucy Powrie and you may know me as the author of The Paper & Hearts Society, as a booktuber or from my previous blog, Queen of Contemporary, which I started in 2012 when I was 12 years...

February 24, 2020