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Father Mother Sister Brother Review

Jim Jarmusch used to be the king of the anthology film, with Mystery Train, Night…

Read an extract from The Repentants by Kate Foster

St Monans, Fife, Scotland 1790. Two women are forced to publicly repent in church, one…

Dwight Thompson: Books and tracks that inspired My Own Dear People

The title of my novel, My Own Dear People, is taken from V.S. Naipaul’s epistolary…

Tig Wallace: Write What You Want

There came a point years ago when I had a choice to make. I knew…

Read an extract from Mortedant’s Peril by RJ Barker

Mortedants can speak to the dead – and Irody Hasp is the greatest of them.…

Bex Goos on writing a book-within-a-book story

Every book I write is a house. When construction is done, when the furniture has…

Amy Mae Baxter: Why is everything so cozy now?

When you think of ‘fantasy’, what comes to mind? Dragons, swords, breath-taking worlds with danger…

Read an extract from Red Tide by Curtis Jobling

In 900 AD Shetland, a fearless Norse girl and a blacksmith’s son must fight for…

Book Review: Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan

In the wake of World War I, the world is a damaged and decidedly unmagical…

Seán Farrelly: Social Media Is Our Colosseum

Tom Burne has kind of a funny origin story. I was in Dublin airport on…

The Movie Scene Method: Sloane Fletcher on Plotting Novels at a High Level

Someone recently asked me if I was a plotter or a pantser. I replied, “Pantser.…

Romcom author Hannah Doyle on stepping into speculative fiction

After pressing send on my fifth contemporary romcom The Spa Break, which published last summer,…