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Jean Menzies on the life lessons in Live Like a Goddess
Jean Menzies chats researching for her YA nonfiction collection, Live Like a Goddess, and why we should learn from mythological women.
Chloe Gong talks Foul Heart Huntsman
Since hitting the New York Times bestsellers list with her 2020 debut novel, These Violent Delights, Chloe Gong has stolen the hearts of readers around the globe with her mesmerising and heart stopping Secret Shanghai series. With its…
Rebecca Barrow on And Don’t Look Back and queer thriller recommendations
As we leave August behind and move into the chilly season, it is time to recommend some thrillers and spooky reads.
Liz Kessler on middle grade war stories like Code Name Kingfisher
Liz Kessler on making Code Name Kingfisher relatable to modern readers and adapting her war story to suit a middle grade audience.
Natasha Devon on Babushka exploring sex ed in schools
Natasha Devon shares what sex ed and LGBTQ+ education was like back in the 2000s and why she explores it in her latest, Babushka.
Lauren Layfield on Indi Raye Is Totally Faking It immortalising her teenage experiences
Lauren Layfield on British Guyanese representation in Indi Raye is Totally Faking it and tapping into her memories to create Indi Raye.
Adalyn Grace on Death, Fate and her gothic paranormal romance, Foxglove
Romantic, gothic and unerringly atmospheric, Adalyn Grace's 2022 YA fantasy novel, Belladonna, was the paranormal romance murder mystery we didn't know we needed in our life an it's safe to say the wait for its sequel, Foxglove, has been a…
Gretchen Rue chats her low-stake cozy read, Something Wicked
Gretchen Rue chats Something Wicked being a low stake, cozy Halloween read, and recommends seven more fall-vibes books.
Michael Thomas Ford on Every Star That Falls, highly anticipated sequel of Suicide Notes
Suicide Notes came out back in 2008. Michael Thomas Ford finally wrote the highly anticipated sequel, Every Star That Falls.
Kate Goldbeck on giving When Harry Met Sally a fresh take in You, Again
Kate Goldbeck chats why When Harry Met Sally is such a classic that she decided to reimagine it in her debut, You, Again.
Laura Steven on Every Exquisite Thing, her Picture of Dorian Gray-inspired dark academia book
Laura Steven on retelling The Picture of Dorian Gray in Every Exquisite Thing, and writing another dark academia book.
Bea Fitzgerald on her Hades and Persephone YA debut, Girl, Goddess, Queen
It's probably not an exaggeration to say we're all pretty much in our Greek mythology retelling era right now and thanks to Girl, Goddess, Queen, Bea Fitzgerald's brilliantly run new YA fantasy rom-com reimagining of the myth of Hades and…
Rachael Lippincott on her time travelling sapphic romance, Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh
Bridgerton meets Emma with a time travelling twist in Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh, the new sapphic romance from New York Times bestselling author, Rachael Lippincott. Starring two wonderfully endearing heroines, buckets of yearning,…
Kit Frick on her killer summer YA thriller, The Reunion
With four YA thrillers to her name, Kit Frick is no stranger to stories filled with murder, secrets and mystery and her fifth and newest title, The Reunion, is no different. To celebrate the release of The Reunion, we chatted with Kit all…
Caroline Waight and Lise Villadsen on In Your Orbit and translated books
To celebrate Women in Translations Month, we chatted with Caroline Waight on translating In Your Orbit from Danish.