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Book Review: Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo

To be a woman in this world is to be painfully familiar with the words…

Megan Scott on why readers are so obsessed with the romantasy genre

It’s 2024, BookTok has amassed an eye-wateringly large audience, and you keep hearing about this…

Nikki Smith: Unpacking the attraction of destination thrillers

I was in my early twenties when The Beach published back in 1996. Alex Garland’s…

Book Review: Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland

The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together…

Penny Mirren: On top of the hill (not over it)

I grew up in the eighties, which as any nostalgic footage from the era will…

Jody Cooksley’s Top 5 Gothic Novels

Jody Cooksley, author of chilling Gothic thriller, The Small Museum, explains what makes a Gothic…

Read an extract from Dead Happy by Josh Silver

By some miracle, Seb has survived the HappyHead programme, only to find himself stranded on…

Taleen Voskuni: Armenian Food Is Resistance

I am a romance writer, one who tries her best to carry out a weighty…

Alice Hunter: Watching My Novel Come to Life on TV

As an author, seeing your creation leap from the pages of your novel to the…

A. S. Hussain on parasocial relationships with podcasters

Among the first podcasts I ever listened to was Serial, a podcast that re-examined the…

Book Review: The Four by Ellie Keel

Rose, Marta, Sami and Lloyd are four scholarship pupils at the prestigious High Realms. They’re…

Fiona McPhillips on the enduring popularity of dark academia

Dark academia is a literary genre that has its origins in Donna Tartt’s seminal 1992…