Louise Wolhuter: Isn’t there more to everyone than meets the eye?

When I was a little girl, there was an old woman we’d often see round…

Author Alexander Darwin discusses the appeal of the found father trope

There’s a reason for Pedro Pascal’s recent rise in popularity and it isn’t just his…

S.J. Wills: Welcome to Tremorglade

One night each month, Sel Archer takes his mum down to the basement of their…

Read an extract from When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Alex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon in her next-door…

Book Review: Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey

From the first tease of Natalie and August’s love story in Secretly Yours, Tessa Bailey…

Tasha Harrison on the inspiration behind her YA rom-com The Thing About Lemons

As a teenager of the 80s, my parents took me and my younger brother on…

Read an extract from The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges

From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four year-old recluse Myra Malone blogs about a…

Book Review: A Curse of Salt by Sarah Street

Sarah Street’s A Curse of Salt is, in the author’s own words, “a love story…

Luna McNamara on reimagining Psyche’s story in her debut novel, Psyche and Eros

Sometimes people ask me why I gave Psyche a sword. To which I answer: why…

Lucy Vine on writing about exes

My new book is called Seven Exes but it might as well be called The…

Book Review: Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara

Set against the outbreak of the Trojan war, Luna McNamara’s captivating retelling of the love…

R. S. Moule on his route to becoming an author

Many writers’ stories about how the craft became their vocation begin at a young age.…