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"he details of daily life are what I love about historical fiction – it’s as close to time travel as we can get."

"eenagers experience profound loss and love and stress and anguish in the same way adults do and a lot of the time alongside adults."

When teen reality star Anton Frazer unveils his latest stunt - a live-streamed, citywide game of Tag in which the prize is to be one of his live-in acolytes - his fans go wild. The whole world is watching. The contestants are kitted out…

"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."

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