Books

Writing a compelling psychological thriller can seem very daunting when staring at a blank screen. In fact, when I stare at the blank screen as I start each and every ...

Books are, of course, one of the many ways we entertain ourselves, and this year (2021) has brought us some sensational books. From romances to thrillers, some books from 2021 ...

I’m up around 7am. These days I drink hot water and lemon, then feed our two cats. Milo is young and beautiful, and we bought him during lockdown. Mimi, our ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about nostalgia lately because my new novel, All the Fun of the Fair, is a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1996. I am ...

1. I am Myers-Briggs type INTP: This makes me very good at sitting alone in my ivory tower writing, but also very good at changing my mind. My debut novel ...

I started writing my novel, Fish Heads and Duck Skin, as a memoir about my time living as an expat in China with my family, but I soon felt constrained ...

Eleanor may be strange, but compared to the rest of her family, she’s the most boring girl on the planet. What Big Teeth was written by non-binary author Rose Szabo ...

Left to my own devices, I can easily sit at my desk all day, and when a deadline is approaching, I often do. If the deadline’s really close – within ...

To celebrate the release of her new book Her Sister's Secret, author S. E. Lynes has opened up about seven things her readers may not know about her... 1. I am, or at ...

Author of Good Neighbours, Sarah Langan, has written an incredibly insightful and thoughtful account of how women's rage has been percieved in fiction; a must-read as it is a deep collection ...

To celebrate the release of Ella Carey's new book, The Lost Girl of Berlin, we asked the author to write us a piece on exactly what it is about stories ...

I was born in the Kenyan highlands, where my father worked as a Veterinary Surgeon. His task was to keep track of the Somali herdsmen and stem the spread of ...

Two-thirds of the way through writing our debut novel, The View Was Exhausting, we hit a serious and mildly catastrophic block: What was going to happen at the end? We ...

The short story represents a formidable tradition. Embark on writing a book of them and you follow in the footsteps of James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield and others.  At the same time, ...

There’s something thoroughly seductive about the combination of summer and reading. Scalding days on the beach, shady afternoons in the garden, books inhaled on lilos until their pages curl... Here ...

To celebrate the release of her new book The Lily Garden, we asked author Barbara Josselsohn to let us in on seven things she'd like her readers to know about her! Here's ...

The term 'timeslip' applies to books where someone travels back in time, and also to those where the two timelines are separate but connected by a common theme, and this ...

When my husband and I first married, we talked about owning a house with a vineyard or orchard in Italy or France when we retired. The idea was that my ...

I like my steak blue, or preferably raw. My dad loves to recount a ‘hilarious’ anecdote about when I was two years old and sitting in a shopping trolley parked by ...

I had never considered writing anything until I was around 30 and my husband and I decided to quit our jobs and backpack around the world. I wasn’t sure how ...

Back in March 2020, I was part way through getting Home by the Sea on paper so for a short period of time I was completely submerged in the lives ...

What Big Teeth is a gothic horror written by Rose Szabo, and is available from today (July 6th, 2020). The novel follows Eleanor who returns home after being away for ...

The alarm goes off at 5 a.m. Some days I need it, some days I don’t; insomnia is an old friend and drops by frequently. Until six months ago, it ...

Resilience is the ability to bounce back after a setback so that you have the courage to do two things: first, to face it again if necessary, learning from the ...