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"Novels teach us through empathy – through our heart. I’m hoping that readers will connect with issues around identity and human rights as well as building peace and respect – those concepts can apply much wider than just Northern Ireland."

"What I’m interested in people’s ability to do good, regardless of the difficult starts to their lives."

"I also find not thinking about what I’m writing often helps new expressions to flow."

"Amidst the trauma and sadness there was humour, and a determination to build new, possibly even better, communities."

"Novel writing is about you sitting a desk until that draft is done, so it’s a solitary, immersed process. And then you rewrite it. And again..."

"One of the things a conquered people lose first is their language, so keeping a hint of that language in the narrative is very important to me."

Win a set of Heartstopper books, the graphic novel behind the beloved Netflix adaptation.

Every Line of You is a thriller about a girl who uses AI to cope with her grief, except the project becomes bigger than she ever anticipated...

"Compassion, because Isabel is human and deserves second chances and deserves safety, and hope, because there is too much despair in the world already."

"Short stories, like radio, need to be succinct and every word must be essential."

"Hope is knowing that there is always another day, another minute, another second to make things right."

This post is sponsored by Penguin Books UK. We are back again with another Penguin Platform book club read-along. For those who are new, each month Penguin Platform picks a title from their newest releases. We then get to discuss all the…

"Be realistic about what travelling solo means – are you prepared to feel lonely sometimes?"

Gay Club! is a hilarious story about LGBTQ+ students fighting to win Presidency at the club's election.

I start my stories with a ‘what if?’ In this case it was ‘what if magic suddenly started working?’