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M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman | 'Thinking about how it can sell makes you a better author'

Fresh from winning Children's Fiction Book of the Year at this year's British Book Awards, M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman are gearing up to... Read more

Daisy Lafarge | 'I haven’t lived the events of the novel but I have infused them with my own experiences'

"I wanted to try and be inside the experience of trusting someone and getting it wrong,” says poet Daisy Lafarge of her brilliant and deeply... Read more

Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter: Turning the focus on the next generation

Though Black Girls Book Club (BGBC) founders Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter inked the deal for their upcoming first book last year, it was not... Read more

Mya-Rose Craig | 'If you care and want to change the world, you can go out and do it'

Mya-Rose Craig is a Bristol-based ornithologist who has been blogging about birds as Birdgirl since she was 11. She first gained fame after being featured... Read more

Malorie Blackman | 'I can only hope that my books encourage further debate and discussion'

This August, former Waterstones children's laureate Malorie Blackman will release the conclusion to her Noughts & Crosses series, Endgame (Penguin Random House Children’s UK). It... Read more

Neil Price | 'The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible'

The very first thing Neil Price wrote when he began his history of the Vikings, The Children of Ash and Elm (Penguin), was not an... Read more

Marvin Thompson | 'How could I be a poet if Black artists did not exist?'

Marvin Thompson, the winner of the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Prize in 2021, discusses his new collection Road Trip, and how Welsh verse has influenced his... Read more

Nicola Davies | 'My aim has always been to ignite a passion for the natural world in my young readers'

Zoologist and prolific children’s author Nicola Davies talks to Caroline Sanderson about The Song That Sings Us, her visionary new YA novel which is an environmental thriller.... Read more

John Sam Jones | 'Without stories, people are clothed in silence'

Caroline Sanderson talks to John Sam Jones, one of Wales’ best-known gay writers and activists, about his memoir The Journey is Home: Notes From a Life on the... Read more

Jacqui and Anna Burns | 'At the heart of our book is the message that families are complicated'

Mother and daughter duo Jacqui and Anna Burns dreamed of co-writing a novel, and with spare time in lockdown, there was no longer any excuse.... Read more

Dave Goulson | 'It’s hard to be overly optimistic, but there is hope'

"I have been fascinated by insects all my life. I'm not in any way religious, and I don't believe in fate, but I do somehow... Read more

Harriet Evans | 'I want to write about things that interest me'

On the sunny spring morning that we speak, Harriet Evans has been going through the page proofs of her 12th novel, The Beloved Girls, with... Read more

Flora Delargy | 'There is such a warmth to this story...It really caught my imagination'

For her debut picture book Flora Delargy, an author and illustrator from Northern Ireland, decided to tell the lesser-known part of the “Titanic” story, about... Read more

Femi Fadugba | 'The best way to get broad creativity is to narrow the confines around it'

Femi Fadugba’s time-travelling début has already been picked up by Netflix, which is adapting his book into a film starring recent Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya... Read more

Adam Silvera | 'For me the story has always been about the journey and not the destination'

Thirty-year-old Bronx-born Adam Silvera is one of the leading figures in Young Adult fiction, focusing as he does on gay-themed stories. His first book More... Read more