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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Review

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the latest film from Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras, comprises…

Book Review: The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Billed as ‘The Secret History for a new generation’, Katy Hays’ The Cloisters is a…

Holy Spider Review

Between 2000 and 2001, Saeed Hanaei murdered sixteen women in the Iranian city of Mashhad;…

Peter May on the genesis for A Winter Grave

I would like to say that the idea for A Winter Grave came to me…

Nancy Barone on A Woman’s Worth

There is an old expression, ‘You are worth your weight’, which had been coined as…

Book Review: The Back Up Man by Phoebe Luckhurst

Phoebe Luckhurst’s second novel The Back Up Man feels like a story that’s been transported…

Julie Houston and the real life inspiration behind The Village Vicar

It is thanks to two lovely young women, both under thirty and both now on…

Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

From Holly Black’s Folk of the Air and Modern Faerie Tales series, to Margaret Rogerson’s…

Read an extract from River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer

Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. These are the names of her…

Martin Griffin on micro-ideas and origin stories

Remember that famous tale about Suzanne Collins and the spark of inspiration that led to…

Book Review: The Circus Train by Amita Parikh

Spanning decades and continents, and drawing inspiration from real life history, Amita Parikh’s The Circus…

Book Review: Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

If you like your fantasy novels dark, dangerous and simmering with all kinds of supernatural…