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A headshot of author Louisa Treger photographed by Claire Newman-Williams

Louisa Treger on A Fatal Love

“I hope readers see Ruth as more than a cold-blooded killer”

I have long been fascinated by Ruth’s case and felt there was something missing in the way it had been told. I wanted to find out more about the woman behind the tabloid headlines and tell the story f…

28 July 2026
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Beccy Blake on Chicken Hill

“You can always find strength in hard times, even when you feel very small”

There are 3 snackable stories in Chicken Hill: Attack of the Zombie Cactus. It begins with the story of Uncle Russ, an Octogenarian conspiracy theorist and ginger cat, who goes on a bit of an adventur…

09 July 2026
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Helen Bain on The Daffodil Days

“Plath was very joyful. She was very gregarious. She was quite complicated, but so are lots of people”

Plath was only in Devon for fifteen months – September 1961 to December 1962 – but it was a particularly rich and fruitful period in terms of both her life and her work. She wrote dozens of letters to…

27 Apr 2026
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Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince

Live-action scene filmed for new Harry Potter Illustrated Edition

The Harry Potter Team revealed the stunning new Illustrated Edition jacket in an evocative social media trailer celebrating one of the most thrilling moments in Half-Blood Prince. The sequence highlig…

13 Mar 2026
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Jacek Dukaj on Ice

“Why would the characters in Ice think and speak like Shakespeare's characters?”

I remember this quite clearly. It all started when I read Tadeusz Kotarbiński's 1913 article ‘The Problem of the Existence of the Future.’ This is a foundational text of the Polish school of logicians…

27 Feb 2026
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Finbar Hawkins on Ghost

“I think writers understand innately that the universe is just not defined in any way we can understand”

I’m glad you liked it! Well, I think my way into this structure, centring it around the three young women, came from my take on what a ghost might be. What if spirits are actually people, but in diffe…

24 Feb 2026
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Venetia Constantine on The Last Starborn Seer

“The gift of foresight is such a double-edged sword; resulting in a devastating burden of knowledge”

I’ve always been drawn to the idea of magic with consequences. In The Last Starborn Seer my main character – Leilani Stellarion – has magical powers that grant her visions of the future, but are slowl…

23 Jan 2026
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Alice Jolly on The Matchbox Girl

“This is a story which could not have happened in another time or another place”

I knew that I needed a peripheral narrator to tell this story and I always feel that fiction is particularly powerful when it traps you inside the head of a person who you might not entirely like. 12-…

12 Dec 2025
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Laura Jane Williams on Taylor Blake Seizes the Day

“Self-love isn't about liking how the world receives you, it's about liking how you receive the world”

The older I get, the more I feel like I'm shedding all of the expectations the world put on upon me - if that doesn't sound too dramatic. I'm really struck, as I reach 40, how much I relate to my teen…

02 Dec 2025
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Larry Hayes on The Fate of Finnegan Quick

“As soon as I start scaring myself too much, I find myself reaching for humour”

I crack jokes whenever I’m nervous, and I just bring that to my writing. As soon as I start scaring myself too much, I find myself reaching for humour. Having a genius editor really helps. Ben Schlank…

02 Dec 2025
A headshot of Patrick Ryan, author of Buckeye (c) Fred Blair

Patrick Ryan on Buckeye

“A small community is a very rich place to birth a story”

Thank you! Readers new to my work should expect a very character-driven story. As a writer, I’m driven more by character than by plot. I love a good plot, and I think Buckeye has one, but when I dive…

13 Oct 2025
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Elodie Harper on Boudicca’s Daughter

“I am more interested in the psychological impact of big events rather than retelling the events themselves”

Boudicca is a fascinating yet hugely divisive historical figure. It is tempting to turn her story into an empowering tale of one woman’s rebellion against Rome, yet this was also a brutal conflict whi…

04 Sept 2025

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