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Elodie Harper on The Temple of Fortuna

“Pompeii is about as close to time travel as you can get”

I don't think it's a secret that Vesuvius makes an appearance in this book! When I was planning the trilogy I knew the eruption would be a part of the story but didn't want to write a frustratingly ab…

13 Dec 2023
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Unfinished Woman

When I was eleven years old, my mother gave me a pair of gold sandals. These were for ‘best’, and not at all suitable for school. In all my life so far I had worn socks and sensible lace-ups to school…

27 Oct 2023
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Dann McDorman on West Heart Kill

“In the end, both the detective and the killer must make a choice, whether to act from hate, or from love”

When I was a boy, my dad was stationed on a U.S. Army base in what was then West Germany. There was no library, just a cramped little bookmobile trailer, the kind with low ceilings and fold-out steps…

24 Oct 2023
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Dan Jones on The Wolves of Winter

“The Dogs are in a mud-wrestling match with history and they bring some moves all of their own to the party”

Wolves picks up the day after Essex Dogs ends: it follows continuous, as they say in Hollywood. The battlefield is steaming, the Dogs are mostly alive if not exactly well, and if they think they’re go…

23 Oct 2023
Author, Katya Balen
Katya Balen on Foxlight

“I really think children have this incredible and special bond with the natural world”

It wasn’t actually my idea! It was my brilliant editor, Lucy. I wasn’t sure at first, and then the idea for the definition of ‘foxlight’ struck me, and how I could weave it into the story itself.

02 Oct 2023
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E. L. Norry on Fablehouse

“We all are important and everyone deserves to be the hero!”

Fablehouse is a magical adventure story set in 1954 in Somerset (English countryside). Fablehouse is a children's home unlike any other -- set amongst acres of moorlands and heathlands, including a ne…

05 Sept 2023
Authors Ian Goldin And Tom Lee Devlin
Ian Goldin And Tom Lee Devlin on Age of the City

“Individuals have an essential role to play in creating better, fairer and more sustainable cities”

IAN: I have been thinking about the relationship between economic progress and economic geography for many years. I have been struck by how place has become even more important over recent decades, wi…

05 Sept 2023
Author Leah Redmond Chang
Leah Redmond Chang on Young Queens

“I want readers to relate to these queens as women, to get lost in the story of Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary”

Slowly, one step at a time. I had already written a scholarly book on Catherine de’ Medici, and while researching that project I read several letters that Catherine had written to Elisabeth (Elisabeth…

08 Aug 2023
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Emery Lord on All That's Left to Say

“I delighted in writing spiky banter, the magic of live music and a particular party scene”

Emery Lord. Cincinnatian. Art museum adventurer, bookstore wanderer, enthusiastic diner no matter the cuisine. Author of six contemporary YA novels, including The Start of Me & You and When We Col…

19 July 2023
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Jamar J. Perry on Cameron Battle and the Escape Trials

“I was considered different because I was a Black boy who loved reading, instead of someone who played sports with the neighbourhood kids”

For those unfamiliar with Cameron Battle, how would you describe the story? JAMAR: The Cameron Battle series is about a twelve-year-old boy name Cameron Battle who loses his parents at a young age, wh…

28 June 2023
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Kalynn Bayron on You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

“My hope is that readers get lost in the adventure for a little while”

I was mostly inspired by the slasher films of the 70's, 80's and 90's--Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp specifically. I grew up on horror movies and I wanted to write a book that felt just like that…

19 June 2023
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Book extract

How to Create a New Vegetable Garden

How early can you start sowing? I think we all have itchy fingers in the late winter and spring, keen to see those first seedlings pop up and say hello to spring. But when I look back on my earlier-th…

13 June 2023

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