by Alex Knight | Jan 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you could turn back time, would you? Would you go back to being young and in school again? It’s tough being a teenager and social media plays an enormous part now in decisions faced every day. The pressures of looking good, wearing the right thing and...
by Alex Knight | Dec 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Location, location, location – and it doesn’t get much better than the opulent and atmospheric Palace of Versailles. But, as a writer, even when you have the perfect setting you still need the right storyline. I knew that all I had to do was wait and the...
by Alex Knight | Dec 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Charming, quirky, loveable, irreverent, sweet, inspirational, adorable and crazy: these are some of the words used by readers to describe my characters. First and foremost, I write novels about ordinary people but, as it turns out, many of my central characters are in...
by Nia Beynon | Dec 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
The question everyone always asks me is – where do your ideas come from? – and I’ve never been able to tell them because they just pop into my head but thinking about it I’ve realised that a good book is like a great film and can be years in the making. The moment a...
by Alex Knight | Nov 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have to admit, when I first started talking to friends and family about the ideas for ‘The Weekender’, they were surprised, to say the least. It wasn’t so much the setting, or the storyline: it was more that I’d decided to make the main male character a...
by Alex Knight | Nov 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Two books that influenced me. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. It contains the ultimate twist. I felt diddled in such an amazing way that I’ll never forget the smile on my face as I put the book down. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. It felt like reading a book that...
