Why I wrote Ten Dates by Rachel Dove

Why I wrote Ten Dates by Rachel Dove

I am always thinking about what happens to stop people from being in love, or taking the plunge with telling someone they want to be with them. Too many times, the stories are heartbreaking. Soldiers go off to war, never telling the one they love how they felt before...
The life of a Land Girl by Fenella J. Miller

The life of a Land Girl by Fenella J. Miller

Land Girls at Harvest Time Att the end of July clocks were moved forward two hours to allow as much light as possible to gather in the crops. The girls and the remaining farmhands and farmer work from dawn till dusk. They couldn’t risk any of the precious grain been...
Representing Disability in Fiction by Jo Bartlett

Representing Disability in Fiction by Jo Bartlett

One thing I’ve tried to do in my books is to represent the communities where my stories are set. Across the first six books in the Cornish Midwives series, I’ve written about the different forms families come in and diversity in terms of ethnicity, culture, age,...
We Stand with Ukraine: A Year On

We Stand with Ukraine: A Year On

A letter from Erin Litteken, internationally bestselling author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv 🇺🇦 Today marks one year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In that time, countless war crimes have been committed. Thousands of Ukrainian children have...
Meeting My Younger Self by Amanda Brookfield

Meeting My Younger Self by Amanda Brookfield

Alice Alone: Meeting My Younger Self I started to write ‘Alice Alone’ when I was twenty-five and working as a freelance journalist in Buenos Aires.  It felt daring – and exposing! – to be trying my hand at fiction, so I deliberately created characters and a situation...