I have always loved writing. I can be creative, but I also get very easily bored. I couldn’t write all day or write full time, and I can’t be creative under pressure, but relaxed and at my own pace, I…
Two young people meet at a pub in South-East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying to make…
Leila Syed receives a call that cleaves her life in two. Her brother-in-law’s voice is filled with panic. His son’s nursery has called to ask where little Max is. I’m quite new to Kia’s books but after having recently read…
Ella’s website: Ella Cook Writes Available as an eBook & audiobook on all platforms. Paperback available from Amazon. I may, or may not, be working on a new book featuring more badger cakes, a human fairy, and a wishing well.…
Freya Sampson works in TV and was the creator and executive producer of Channel 4’s Four in a Bed and Gogglesprogs. She studied History at Cambridge University and is a graduate of the Faber Academy. She lives in London with her husband, two…
The Open House by Sam Carrington. A book review of twists and intrigue. Thank you to Netgalley, the Author and publishers for my copy of this book. I was attracted to the book by the intriguing sounding description. Description Everyone’s welcome.…
So I managed it, despite deviating wildly from what I had intended to read. It still all counts though. I’d like to say it’s made a dent in the TBR pile but more than 20 books have arrived to take…
Initially I thought I was going to write a couple of additional short stories about the same group of young people on the edge of getting into serious trouble with the law, but this evolved into a complete crime novel…
We walked to the most northern part of the beach, undressed, and ran into the ocean; a place that has been my constant solace since moving to Australia all those years ago. Afterwards we walked to the rocks in North…
Into the Mouth of the Lion is based on the photographs and notebooks of when I served as a humanitarian worker in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur (Sudan) and other places in 2000-2009. I worked as a photographer…
