OK I know this is a FIRST WORLD PROBLEM completely. Still, the pain of writing my second novel has been immense. I remember attending Harrogate in the summer of 2016, my...

“Writing your first book you have the luxury of time” is something that crime author Catherine Ryan Howard is always saying, and it’s not until you’re under contract that you...

The idea for The Lies We Told came to me after having a conversation with some fellow mothers about whether certain behavior in kids is innate or learned. We all...

I began writing A Known Evil on ‘Blue Monday’ in January 2014 in a quiet moment after a day’s teaching. I am an assistant university lecturer and one of the...

Next time I’m scanning the glossy, title-spines in a bookshop, I will spare a thought for the never-to-be-published, strife-rich sagas hidden in their midst. Having walked in an author’s shoes...

‘Why? Do you know why this happened, Johana?’ These are the questions I grew up with. Absolutely not referring to an uncle’s skeleton found buried under the old oak tree...

For someone like me who has always bucked against tradition for the sake of tradition and has always had a complete distaste for labels and categorisation, it’s terribly tempting to...

The Last Hour is the first novel that came to me almost fully formed in one image. The hero, Ballista, was standing on top of the Mausoleum of Hadrian. The...

Avon, the imprint of Harper Collins, actually came to me with the idea for Hold My Hand. That might sound an unusual way to end up writing a book, where the...

I’ve always loved stories. Such a short sentence, that one. It feels inadequate, but superlatives sound insincere, so that’s what I’m left with. I learned to read when I was...