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Discover the plants and fungi that maim, murder and make mischief to survive

Peter Marren uncovers the stories behind the most sinister plants and fungi

Dare to enter The Devil's Garden this Halloween

I’m impressed by the capacity of certain plants and fungi to take charge of us, to disorder our minds, enter our dreams. It’s as if they are sending tendrils into our brain, twisting our perceptions,…

27 Oct 2026
An asset of Caesar: The Commander's Blade in paperback alongside an author photo of Peter Gibbons.

Peter Gibbons on Caesar: The Commander's Blade

“The period of the late Republic provides unbelievable material for a historical fiction novel”

The ancient world has always been my favourite part of history to explore. Whilst my readers are more familiar with my books set in the Viking Age and Dark Ages Britain, I think the core elements of t…

21 Oct 2026
Photography of the finished copy of The Last Handmaid alongside an author photo of Clare Whitfield.

Clare Whitfield on The Last Handmaid

“I wanted to creep into aspects of the legends surrounding Báthory”

There are so many wild myths and legends surrounding the very real person that was the Countess Erzsébet Báthory, it’s so obvious they cannot be true. As one of the perpetually curious, I wanted to fi…

08 Oct 2026
Delia Fian holding a copy of her book Foraged Basketry.

Meet the Maker - Delia Fian

Delia Fian on Foraged Basketry

I started weaving just to make myself a pack basket for foraging wild food and medicine plants, and to help carry things up the mountainside to the tent I was living in at the time. I had no idea how…

23 Sept 2026
Pocket GCSE Greek Etymological Lexicon alongside an illustration by Barbarann Lang.

Pocket GCSE Greek Etymological Lexicon

Intrigued by the ancient Greek language after the new Odyssey film?

As I write this, we have just seen the release of Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film of the Odyssey. It’s wonderful to witness the excitement and buzz around one of the most famous stories from…

16 Sept 2026
An Elephant for the Emperor book next to a photo of Saviour Pirotta

Saviour Pirotta on An Elephant for the Emperor

“See the story, the journey in every human being”

I’d been wanting to write a book set in the Islamic Golden Age since I read about it in a magazine at school. It wasn’t called that then; It was referred to as the Islamic Renaissance although the ter…

11 Sept 2026
A photograph of the 4 books in the Agricola series alongside an author photograph of Simon Turney.

Simon Turney on Agricola: Conqueror

“I could very easily have filled two or even three paperbacks with the events of this period”

Actually, since I wrote a non-fiction biography of Agricola a few years earlier, I know his life and his world backwards and inside out, so crafting the character was more or less already done for me.…

03 Sept 2026
The Detention Diaries book and Sam Copeland

Author Sam Copeland on The Detention Diaries

Q&A with Sam Copeland: Axolotls, accidents and Arthur's detention!

I am 51 years old, live in London and have three children and a dog called Bagel. I love all the normal things in life - books, music, goat-wrestling, polishing my collection of goal-wrestling medals,…

01 Sept 2026
Terry Deary photo alongside Terrible Tru Tales book covers

Author Terry Deary on his Terrible True Tales series

“The stories aren’t about ‘History’ they are about ‘people’ - human beings like me and my readers”

The original idea was for four books on Egypt. They seemed to be popular, so I was invited to write another four then another and another. So it grew, four books a year for 12 years and we ended up wi…

17 Aug 2026
Author Joe Harkness alongside a copy of Neurodivergent by Nature on a green background

Neurodivergent by Nature

Joe Harkness on being shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2026

It’s a privilege to be acknowledged in this way. It takes a community to create a book like NDBN and therefore, the recognition belongs to a wider network of people than just me alone in a similar way…

17 Aug 2026
Author Michael J. Warren alongside a copy of his book, The Cuckoo's Lea, shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2026

The Cuckoo's Lea

Michael J. Warren on being shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2026

It’s the highlight of my year! Very gratifying indeed and so rewarding to know that readers are responding to my book so positively. The Wainwright is the big one for any nature writer, of course, and…

17 Aug 2026
Hammered Flowers book cover with a photo of Michelle Moore and flower tags

Meet the Maker - Michelle Moore

Michelle Moore on Hammered Flowers

I began natural dyeing in 2015. During that time, I came across a few images of flowers that had been pounded and printed, though the results were not very clear. I was intrigued by the process and de…

07 Aug 2026

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