How i write

Thriller writer Erin Kelly recommends the reads you need when you want to let loose

‘Sam is asleep. I could kill him now.’ These are the opening eight words of my first novel, Eeny Meeny, published a lifetime ago in 2014, which launched fearless crime fighter, Detective Inspector Hel

‘I’m not a therapist,’ says Cecelia Ahern, ‘but I do know what it’s like to put everyone else first for so long, you almost disappear.’ It’s this quiet, universal truth that sits at the core of Paper

T hey say everyone has a book inside them. (If you’re drawn to quests or escapades you may have a whole shelf ’s worth.) But experiencing real-life events is one thing; turning that into unputdownable

Unearthing women’s most closely guarded stories

Our books editor Zoe West gives us her favourite picks for the month