Josie Silver on writing longhand

Like most writers, I live on my laptop, several documents constantly open when I’m in…

Book Review: Let’s Make A Scene by Laura Wood

It’s peak summer reads season and you’ll be hard pushed to find a novel more…

Book Review: The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

High in the Appalachian mountains is a hotel unlike any other. Run by its efficient…

Caroline James Finds Fiction Gold – On a Cruise Ship

I never wanted to go on a cruise. I couldn’t understand the attraction of being…

Kate Weston: An ode to Selling Sunset

Dear Selling Sunset, I love you. I love your outfits, your savage drama, and your…

Amy de la Force: What Buffy taught me about strong female leads

‘In every generation, there is a chosen one’ – and my chosen hero wore leather…

Summer Reads: 24 books to add to your summer 2025 reading list

Summer is officially here but you don’t need to book a beach holiday to feel…

Read an extract from Let Them Stare by Jonathan Van Ness and Julie Murphy

Sully is ready to get out of Hearst, Pennsylvania. With a fashion internship secured, the…

Ava Eldred on how her love of musical theatre inspired Exit Stage Death

When the question of what my second YA novel should be about came up, in…

Kenneth Oppel: When Art Becomes Reality

When I started writing Best of All Worlds it felt like a cautionary tale or…

Book Review: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

There’s nothing quite like a book about space travel to remind us just how tiny…

Marisa Linton on becoming a fiction writer after sixty

Looking back, it seems inevitable that I would become a fantasy writer, right from when…