Sarah Langan’s top five fantastic non-fiction books that’ll make you wish you lived on Mars (in the best of ways)

Good Neighbours author Sarah Langan shares five fantastic non-fiction books that will make you wish you lived on Mars...... Read More...

Alison Booth on the inspiration for The Painting

When I was very young, I remember seeing, in a book in my father’s study, a black-and-white photograph of tanks in a cobbled street in a city called Budapest. I... Read More...

Alex Dahl on the inspiration and research behind Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever tells the story of experienced psychotherapist, Kristina Moss, and her troubled client, Leah Iverson, a famous novelist, whose lives collide with de... Read More...

Ellen Alpsten on The Tsarina’s Daughter: A People’s Princess

Never before has there been so much interest in female power, be it historically, or current politics. Literature and TV adaptations are no exception – yet I am... Read More...

Katy Moran on her top five wildly badly behaved fictional families

Don’t get me wrong, I love a tightly constructed plot and an immersive bit of description as much as the next reader, but what really gets me hooked on a novel ... Read More...

Hélene Fermont on what inspired her to write The Matchmaker

THE MATCHMAKER is my fifth psychological thriller. I get to meet so many wonderful people every day in my day job as a practising psychologist and meet people i... Read More...

The Patient Man author Joy Ellis on the Fenland location of her books

We never intended to move to the Lincolnshire Fens. When my partner, Jacqueline, retired after thirty years with Surrey Constabulary, we decided on a complete c... Read More...

What’s in a song? Selections from The Witch’s Heart Playlist

Creating playlists is a pastime for many authors — myself included! While I prefer ambient music while I’m drafting new projects these days, I keep my playlists... Read More...

Jennifer Saint’s top 5 books about sisters

At the heart of my novel Ariadne is the relationship between two sisters. Ariadne and Phaedra are both well-known and important figures in Greek mythology but a... Read More...

Krystal Sutherland on Portals and Liminal Spaces in YA

If I ask you to think of a portal fantasy – a story in which a character falls through some sort of portal to a magical realm – chances are you will first think... Read More...

K. J. Maitland on where she writes and how it plays into her work

When I moved to a little cottage in Devon a few years ago, I adopted the blacksmith’s forge in the garden as my writing office. Being even a few yards away from... Read More...

Future Perfect author Felicia Yap on how fashion inspires her

I’m a sucker for fine fashion. I have roamed endless designer boutiques in London, New York, Milan, Tokyo and Paris in search of the perfect dress. When I was i... Read More...