Author Guest Post

How can there be two alternative versions of the truth?

This was a question I wanted to explore in my second novel The Lodger, and…

How a 17th century herbalist’s home inspired The Hemlock Cure

Hidden in the Derbyshire Dales, in a hollow where the crags of the Dark Peak meet the…

Alison Booth on the inspiration behind Bellevue

My latest novel Bellevue is set in a place that is dear to my heart…

Claudia Carroll on turning fact to fiction

You know when you open up the fly-leaf of any book, and read a discreet disclaimer…

Livi Michael: When Memory Becomes Toxic

7.pm. I’m relaxing by watching TV. At this time in the evening my attention tends…

Kate Spencer on romanticising New York

There is nothing inherently romantic about living in New York City. It’s a place that…

Gareth Worthington: Time and Time, again

Time is perhaps the one thing that unifies us all—our workday, our family moments, our…

Hail the peacekeepers: Putting the mothers centre stage

When I decided to reimagine Romeo and Juliet and set it in a modern-day West…

Tracy Rees on working women in Victorian times

I’ve written five novels set in the Victorian era now – I’m endlessly fascinated by…

Alice Cavanagh on old photographs and the true story that inspired The House That Made Us

I love old photographs. That’s hardly a controversial opinion; I think most people love leafing…

Charlotte Rixon on the inspiration behind The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away was my lockdown project. I turned 40 in lockdown and…

Taleen Voskuni on growing up not quite Armenian enough and not quite American enough

I was ten years old in swim camp being told by a friend that she’d…