Book Review: Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman

Picture a novel that combines all the sun-soaked, cruel and confusing drama of three privileged…

Building Community From The Shadows: The Inspiration Behind Melissa Blair’s A Shadow Crown

What inspired me to write The Halfling Saga is a hard thing to narrow down…

Book Review: The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges

Reclusive Myra Malone has spent most of her thirty-four years on earth hidden away in…

Anne Worthington on the germ of the idea for The Unheard

I am a documentary photographer and writer. I came to writing having been a documentary…

Kate Weston: Why I wanted to include period positivity in a murder mystery novel

It’s always baffled me that people are completely fine with blood in a murder mystery…

Jill Johnson on the plant inspiration behind Devil’s Breath

I’ve always been better with plants than people and I tend to name people after…

Read an extract from Salt & Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones

Luda, a photographer, and her two teenagers arrive in the Scottish Northern Isles to make…

Debut author Swéta Rana on the balance between expressiveness and stoicism

Much like Tania, the main character of Queuing for the Queen, I was never much…

Book Review: What Happens After Midnight by K. L. Walther

I fell head over heels for K. L Walther’s The Summer of Broken Rules when…

12 must-read YA books for summer 2023

Summer is officially here but you don’t need to travel to faraway destinations to feel…

Book Review: Sing Me To Sleep by Gabi Burton

If you love stories with morally grey protagonists who are just as likely to kill…

Siobhan MacGowan on the real life incidents that inspired The Graces

The Graces, set at the turn of a 20th century Ireland, tells the story of…