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It’s the cosy season of sitting down with a good book. Here, authors heading for Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival this month share their writing styles

FOLLOWING HER AUNT’S DEATH, LEHANNE SERGISON, 54, FELT LET DOWN BY POLICE AND TOOK MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS

Look out for a future edition of heat edited by the bestselling author – if Katie Holloway manages to persuade him

Best-selling author and House of Games presenter Richard Osman reveals how his mother dealt with grief, how he manages to write so much with a debilitating eye condition and why his latest Thursday Murder Club mystery made his wife cry