Author

EDITORIAL

Read an extract from Amanda Cassidy’s latest novel: The Returned

Freelance journalist Cassidy's debut novel Breaking was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger Awards. Her second novel The Returned…

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sam blake

LIVING

Bestselling author Sam Blake: ‘Story comes from the collision of unrelated ideas’

Here, we catch up with Sam Blake to chat about her writing process, literary influences, and the making…

By Sarah Gill

EDITORIAL

‘Falling in love at fifty gave me a new perspective on the single life I had accepted’

Sheena Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning writer who has just launched her adult fiction career with the Mrs Hart’s…

By Amanda Cassidy

premium

CULTURE

The best books coming in 2023

In a world of continuous instability, the steady churn of new books from brilliant authors remains one of…

By Amanda Cassidy

LIVING

10 of our favourite, brilliant books of 2021

2021 was a tough year in many – okay, almost all – respects but it was a cracker…

By Jennifer McShane

LIVING

Your next 8 unputdownable summer reads are here

Our summer of freedom is here... and while we may not be sitting poolside, these books are worth…

By Jennifer McShane

switching careers

AGENDA, LIVING

Switching Careers: What it’s really like to ditch the day job and make the dream job happen

When Andrea Mara was made redundant, she was devastated – she tells Sophie White how a huge blow…

By Sophie White

Books

LIVING

These 3 books were made for bedtime reading

I read so many new books every month that nighttime offers me what I'm scarcely afforded during the…

By Jennifer McShane

LIVING

4 new books to get stuck into this April

By Jennifer McShane

LIVING

‘The crime itself is usually always the focus… I was interested in the trauma afterwards’

By Jennifer McShane

LIVING

My Dark Vanessa: ‘So many people tell her what to do it ends up silencing her’

In the year 2000, Vanessa Wye is a lonely sophomore at Maine’s Browick boarding school. The academically gifted…

By Jennifer McShane

EDITORIAL

I spent two weeks at a virtual writers’ retreat. This is what I learned

A virtual writers' retreat gave Patricia Tsouros the push she needed to return to a book she had long abandoned…

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