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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…

Katherine Blake on bending the rules

There are lots of ‘rules’ about writing. So. Many. Rules. One is that authors should…

Seven Rules For Staying Married When Writing With Your Husband

Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos have been married for thirteen years and writing novels together…

Win a copy of Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch

To celebrate the publication of Freddie Kölsch’s YA debut Now, Conjurers, we’ve teamed up with Electric…

Anna Zoe Quirke on the importance of authentic autism representation in books

When I was growing up, there wasn’t really any accurate autism representation out there in…