Book Review: A Calamity of Mannerings by Joanna Nadin

On the cusp of turning seventeen, Panth Mannering is a spirited teenager knocking on the…

Ruth Kelly: Why islands make great settings for thrillers

Authors have been using islands as locations for thrillers for decades. Agatha Christie started the…

Book Review: The Fascination by Essie Fox

After his mother dies in childbirth, orphan Theo is raised by his grandfather, Lord Seabrook,…

22 books to add to your summer 2023 reading list

Whether you enjoy an escapist beach read full of sun, sand and sea, or prefer…

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…