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Carmen Review

Loosely inspired by the seminal George Bizet opera, Carmen tells the story of its titular…

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…

Luna McNamara on reimagining Psyche’s story in her debut novel, Psyche and Eros

Sometimes people ask me why I gave Psyche a sword. To which I answer: why…

Lucy Vine on writing about exes

My new book is called Seven Exes but it might as well be called The…

Book Review: Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara

Set against the outbreak of the Trojan war, Luna McNamara’s captivating retelling of the love…

Master Gardener Review

Narvel (Joel Edgerton) is the head horticulturalist at Gracewood Gardens, owned by dowager Norma Haverhill…

R. S. Moule on his route to becoming an author

Many writers’ stories about how the craft became their vocation begin at a young age.…

Book Review: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop

With a title like The Girls of Summer, you might find yourself picking up Katie…

Antony Johnston: Invisible Underdogs

Why is Gwinny Tuffel, the hound-loving sleuth in my new Dog Sitter Detective series, an…

Book Review: Lying In The Deep by Diana Urban

A contemporary YA retelling of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, Diana Urban’s Lying in…