Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy

Despite its synopsis promising a complex, intergenerational tale of family secrets, wartime betrayals and a…

Book Review: The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s YA debut is the second installment in the Bellatrix feminist YA collection,…

Book Review: The Retreat by Sherri Smith

It’s a strange thing when you enthusiastically enjoy a book’s plot but struggle to like,…

Book Review: The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason

Like Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger before it, Amanda…

Book Review: Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker

In reading Morgan Parker’s debut novel, it wasn’t long before I began committing the cardinal…

Liz Hyder on the inspiration behind her debut novel Bearmouth

Writing is a strangely solitary affair, sitting for hours at a desk tapping out words…

Book Review: Unleashed by Amy McCulloch

The second book in Canadian author Amy McCulloch’s Jinxed duology reunites readers with super smart teenager…

Book Review: The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young

Less than a year after her fantasy debut hit UK shelves, Adrienne Young has returned…

Book Review: Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet

When I’m craving a book that combines both breathless action and heart-pounding romance, there’s really…

8 new books to read in September

Summer isn’t officially over just yet but that Autumnal change is already in the air.…

Adrian J Walker on flawed characters and The End of the World Survivors Club

Readers don’t always enjoy what you write. Sounds obvious, but it bears repeating. Once, in…

Read an extract from The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young

Set ten years after the thrilling events of Adrienne Young’s fantasy debut Sky in the Deep,…