Ava Eldred on how her love of musical theatre inspired Exit Stage Death

When the question of what my second YA novel should be about came up, in…

Kenneth Oppel: When Art Becomes Reality

When I started writing Best of All Worlds it felt like a cautionary tale or…

Book Review: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

There’s nothing quite like a book about space travel to remind us just how tiny…

Marisa Linton on becoming a fiction writer after sixty

Looking back, it seems inevitable that I would become a fantasy writer, right from when…

Book Review: The Wycherleys by Annaliese Avery

Seventeen-year-old Aurelia Wycherley is entering her debutante season as a witch. She should be excited…

Book Review: Girl, 1983 by Linn Ullman

Linn Ullman is a renowned literary critic and novelist in Norway. However, globally, she will…

Book Review: Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake

When Thayer Wren, the ‘father of modern technology’ and CEO of Wrenfare Magitech, unexpectedly dies,…

Chloe Ford: Reading romance as a teen was better than sex education

I started my romance reading adventure around the age of thirteen. I’d grown up watching…

Rosaria Munda: Stories Are Like Soup

Don’t rush them. The longer they simmer, the richer and more complex they come out.…

Win a copy of Rosaria Munda’s Fireborne and an exclusive Aurelian Cycle pin

To celebrate the publication of Fireborne, the first instalment in Rosaria Munda’s gripping YA fantasy…

Read an extract from Traumaland by Josh Silver

Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist…

Annaliese Avery: A Brief Guide To The Most Magical Season

When I set off to write a story I often start with a short concept…