How i write

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

As the wipers do their best against the slopping rain, Emma pulls up onto the kerb in West Field Close. The local radio burbles away: Hollywood celebrity Suzette Wild is coming back to town tomorrow t

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Thanks for coming in today, Bea,” said Jason, the commissioning editor at Bluestone Press, where Bea was interviewing for yet another assistant job. “We’ll be in touch.” “Okay, great,” replied Bea, fo

The best new books you’ll love

Broadcaster and author Clare Balding shares the reads that have been her escape and inspiration