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Book Review: The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter

Some books are written with the intention of making readers think differently about the world…

C. G. Moore on writing in verse

I get asked a lot whether I prefer writing in verse or prose and I…

Book Review: Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Packed with twists, turns and an ever-present unsettling undertone, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé‘s second novel Where Sleeping…

Ally Carter: Things you can’t forget about amnesia

Hi. I’m Ally, and I’m addicted to amnesia stories. *Support group chimes*: “Hi, Ally.” Amnesia…

Book Review: The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

Weaving the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl with a town full of dark secrets…

Rachel Wolf on characters we love to hate

Iago, Logan Roy, Nurse Ratched, Patrick Bateman, Annie Wilkes… There’s nothing like a compelling villain…

Be afraid, be very afraid: L. D. Smithson on why scary stories can be good for us

When I was nine years old the movie Jaws played for the first time on…

Read an extract from The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black

Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to…

Book Review: The Sleeping Beauties by Lucy Ashe

Moving from the early 1930’s setting of her suspenseful ballet-centred debut, Clara & Olivia, to…

Book Review: The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

Five women are dead. The killer leaves no fingerprints, no DNA. The only thing that…

The Sleeping Beauty: fairy tale re-creations in times of conflict

In the fairy tale of the sleeping beauty, a castle re-awakens after a long curse.…