The Society of Authors has announced the shortlists for the nine prizes to be awarded at the 2025 Translation Prizes ceremony ...

About Turn a New Page Turn a New Page is The Reading Agency’s 2025 Big Give campaign, created to mark 20 years of Quick Reads ...

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Sam Blake explains how a subplot is born from side stories that dovetail with the main story, only with their own narrative ...

Given the huge success of the TV adaptation of Andrea Mara’s gripping psychological thriller, All Her Fault, and her winning ...

Michael Clemenger movingly tells us what he came to fully realize on his confirmation day in June 1963. The sentiment of ...

The crime writing genre’s oldest and most famous award, the CWA Diamond Dagger, has had an injection of new blood thanks to a ...

At a glittering ceremony in Dublin, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrated its 20th Anniversary with the opening speech ...

Competition deadline: 13th February 2026 Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts announce the first Footnote x Counterpoints ...

Sam Blake tells us about the layering process that went into creating the backstory for her characters in The Killing Sense .

Richard Gadz, author of the The House of all Sorrows, the third title in the Gothics Undead series, tells us how horror and ...

You have to kill your darlings. The kind of line we’ve all heard, those of us cursed and blessed with the urge to write a ...