I first came across Noor Inayat Khan’s story in 2018, while researching the work of WW2’s SOE agents for a novel I was writing.

I am delighted to announce my new novel Helios has just been published. It is about an ageing Christian Brother who, ...

The St Andrew’s Book Festival will host a star-studded line-up of best-selling authors and international household names.

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Bookshop.org is launching the charitable initiative Books That Give, which will see 10% of sales of select titles donated to ...

Children’s writers! I’m thinking many of you might agree that, when we started off on our writing adventures, we imagined we would spend all our writer-y time in the calmness of our own company. We ...

As Ila says: ‘So it wouldn’t be called dowry, it would be called devaan-ghevaan – give-and-take. As in we’ll give you one chance to dump your daughter in our family and we’ll take everything you’ve ...

Research is core to Sam Blake's thriller Three Little Birds, from character to forensic detail she reveals her techniques for ...

I’ve spent most of my career in the music business in Hollywood, but I’ve always loved the written word. In 2001 I founded ...

Vedashree Khambete-Sharma: how Jane Austen saved me from the pandemic. 2021. The world was in the throes of a deadly pandemic. India was in lockdown. The roads were empty. But the newsfeeds were full ...