Author Interviews

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…

This post is sponsored by Walker Books. Finding Jupiter, the stand-out YA debut from Kelis Rowe is a bookshelf must have for anyone looking for a superbly written story of heartbreak, loss, family and finding love when you least expect or…

With explorations of parental neglect and domestic abuse superbly balanced alongside teen angst, high school politics and A+ detective work, Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson's new YA thriller, The Agathas, is a gripping and highly addictive…

"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."

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."

The Queen of YA fiction is back.

This post is sponsored by Bloomsbury. Following modern day gay teen, Luis Gonzalez, after he finds himself having travelled back in time to his parents' era to save a closeted classmates life, David Valdes' debut YA novel, Spin Me Right…