Emma Bamford on reimagining Hitchcock’s Vertigo from a female protagonist’s perspective

Twenty-six years ago I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo for the first time and…

Book Review: How To Solve Murders Like A Lady by Hannah Dolby

Unconventional Victorian heroine Violet Hamilton makes a triumphant return in How to Solve Murders Like…

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar: Libraries shaped who we are and allowed us to become authors

Best friends and bestselling authors Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar have co-authored a brand-new swoonworthy enemies-to-lovers…

Book Review: Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

During the 1980s, Carl Fletcher – a millionaire businessman, and polystyrene magnate – is kidnapped…

Read an extract from Murder on a Summer Break by Kate Weston

School outcasts-turned-detective duo, Kerry and Annie, are BACK – and after solving last summer’s menstrual…

Joanna Nadin: Conjuring Characters From Different Decades

The first flicker of a story, for me, is always a character. Plot is character…

Two hundred years since Lord Byron’s death, is our first true celebrity still the ultimate Bridgerton beau?

Bridgerton is back, in another masterful exploration of human frailty. Regency romance has always been…

Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on her love of William Shakespeare as a fictionalised character

I love Shakespeare. I love his plays, his poetry, and I love the man himself,…

Charlotte Butterfield on creating likeable characters

One thing I get asked a lot is how to write characters that readers will…

Book Review: Dancers of the Dawn by Zulekhá A. Afzal

Deep in the sweltering desert an elite troupe of female dancers have been trained to…

The Queer Found Family of Now, Conjurers (And of my heart!)

Imagine, if you will, five teenagers. Most of them are queer, all of them are…

Book Review: Honey by Isabel Banta

Any book that opens with a quote from early ‘00s-era Britney is almost guaranteed to…