Flashes of fear

Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...

One of the unexpected outcomes of being a literary agent is that it means I am in the privileged position of knowing exactly how tough it is to forge a career with your pen. As a result, it is always

When you mention fantasy fiction as a genre, your initial thoughts on what that means are liable to be pretty grand-scale – sweeping court intrigue, powerful and dangerous creatures threatening humani

Liquid drips through the walls. Black mould creeps around the windows towards my bed. I hear strangers’ voices outside my door and screaming from downstairs. The electric shower is stuck at scalding t

K.S. Ford has always been a storyteller but only began writing novels after he retired in 2020. The Woman Who Loves is his seventh original story and the first one written outside of his own experienc

The Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize is running again this autumn, and we are looking for outstanding texts from unagented and unpublished authors. We have two categories: picture books and chap