Author A-Z

Here you find links to book reviews, Q&As and other posts ordered by author.

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Michelle Adams - Twisted Sisters (guest post)

Stefan Ahnhem - God bless the screenwriter (guest post)

Rennie Airth - The Reckoning

Aimee Alexander - Q&A

Nick Alexander - Q&A

Nick Alexander - Inspiration for Other Halves (guest post)

Lulu Allison - DIO Doing It Ourselves and the joy of collaborative publishing (guest post)

Jason Arnopp - The Last Days of Jack Sparks

Phillipa Ashley - Christmas in July and Summer in February (guest post)

A J Ashworth - Red Room

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Seth Augenstein - Laid Off

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Jane Bailey - Q&A

Kristen Bailey - Endings (guest post)

May Jayne Baker - The Never Have I Ever Club - extract

Jackie Baldwin - Q&A

Lisa Ballantyne - Q&A

Jean-Luc Bannalec - Death in Pont Aven

Jennifer Barclay - An Octopus in my Ouzo

Nancy Barone - Q&A

Nevada Barr - Destroyer Angel

Nicolas Barreau - The Secret Paris Cinema Club

Fiona Barton - The Widow

Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead

Hannah Beckerman - Q&A

Louise Beech - The Art of Coincidence (guest post)

Louise Beech - Maria in the Music (guest post)

Louse Beech - Q&A

Anna Bell - Don’t Tell the Groom

Jacquelyn Benson - The Rise of the female protagonist (guest post)

Susmita Bhattacharya - Q&A

Kate Blackadder - Q&A

Jenny Blackhurst - The Inspiration Behind Before I Let You In (guest post)

Isobel Blackthorn - My Devilish Muse (guest post)

Isobel Blackthorn - Q&A

Sam Blake - From Literary Scout to Author (guest post)

Jo Bloom - Q&A

Paula Brackston - Q&A

Rebecca Bradley - Q&A

Carys Bray - The Museum of You

Carys Bray - Sweet Home

Carys Bray - My favourite museums

Victoria Brock - Harriet the Hedgehog

Frances Brody - Death of an Avid Reader

Frances Brody - A Death in the Dales

Rob Boffard - The journey from idea to published book (guest post)

Sharon Bolton - Daisy in Chains

Sharon Bolton - Like This, Forever

Sharon Bolton - A Dark and Twisted Tide

Sharon Bolton -Now You See Me

Sharon Bolton - Dead Scared

Sharon Bolton - Carry on, Sister (guest post)

Sharon Bolton - Q&A

Stephen Booth - Q&A

Paula Brackston - Q&A

Rebecca Bradley - Q&A

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, the Serial Killer

Cathy Bramley - Ivy Lane

Cathy Bramley - White Lies and Wishes

Su Bristow - The Selkie Legend (guest post)

Steph Broadribb - Deep Down Dead

Alison Brodie - Q&A

Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey

Adam Brookes - Q&A

Emma Burstall - Q&A

Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist

Michel Bussi - Never Forget (extract)

Stephanie Butland - The inspiration behind Letters to my Husband (guest post)

Stephanie Butland - Lost for Words

Stephanie Butland - Q&A

Sarah Butler - More than 100 stories (guest post)

Jackie Buxton - Q&A

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Helen Cadbury - Race to the Kill

Emma Calin - Once Upon a Bike (guest post)

Graeme Cameron - Normal

Marie Campbell - Q&A

Joanna Cannon - The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Donato Carrisi - The Hunter of the Dark

Clare Carson - Q&A

M.J. Carter - Q&A

C J Carver - Q&A

Jane Casey - Let the Dead Speak

Ray Celestin - The Axeman’s Jazz

Brenda Chapman - Cold Mourning

Emma Chapman - How to be a Good Wife

Emma Chapman - My Journey to Publication

Georgia de Chamberet - Far to Go and Many to Love by Lesley Blanch - Q&A

Eve Chase - Q&A

Linden Chase - Q&A

Anna Chilvers - Q&A

E. O. Chirovici - The Book of Mirrors

Agatha Christie - Sparkling Cyanide

Nancy Christie - Q&A

Sherryl Clark - Q&A

Angela Clarke - Follow Me extract

Abby Clements - The Winter Wedding

Katherine Clements - 17th Century costume dramas (guest post)

Brigid Coady - The Last Kiss

Ann Coates - From short stories to novels - how my writing has evolved (guest post)

Harlan Coben - Fool Me Once

Peg Cochran - Confession is Murder

Tammy Cohen - When She Was Bad

Daniel Cole - Ragdoll

Sylvia Colley - Ask Me to Dance (extract)

Juliet Conlin - Writing The Uncommon Life of Alfred Garner in Six Days (guest post)

Oscar Coop-Phane - Zenith Hotel

Barbara Copperthwaite - Q&A

Jane Corry - Q&A

Diney Costeloe - Q&A

Joanna Courtney - What is it about Queens? (guest post)

Helen Cox - Secrets and Fries at the Starlight Diner (extract)

James Craig - Q&A

M.W. Craven - The Curator

Mason Cross - Q&A

Jack Croxall - Want to read my diary? (guest post)

Harriet Cummings - Using Childhood Stories for Inspiration (guest post)

F.J. Curlow - Q&A

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Kjell Ola Dahl - Q&A

Will Dean - Q&A

Stephen Deas - Culture and conflict in Fantasy fiction (guest post)

Lucy Diamond - The Year of Taking Chances

Lisa Dickenson - You Had Me at Merlot

Lisa Dickenson - The Twelve Dates of Christmas

Lisa Dickenson - My top five writing influences

Jean-Paul Didierlaurant - The Reader on the 6.27

Lucy Dillon - A Hundred Pieces of Me

Lucy Dillon - Where the Light Gets In

Karen Dione - The Marsh King’s Daughter

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - My Mother is a River

Eva Dolan - After You Die

Eva Dolan - Watch Her Disappear

Poppy Dolan - Q&A

Rachel Dove - Q&A

Karl Drinkwater - Why we shouldn’t reject the short story and short story The Jug (guest post)

Renita D’Silva -Q&A

Daphne du Maurier - The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman’s Creek

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Martin Edwards - Foreign Bodies

Laurie Ellingham - Why be a fiction writer (guest post)

Aven Ellis - On Beta Readers (guest post)

Helen Ellis - American Housewife

Sally Emerson - Q&A

Amy Engel - The Roanoke Girls

Thomas Enger - Cursed

Claire Evans - The 1880s’, the Decade that Changed Everything (guest post)

Claire Evans - Q&A

Harriet Evans- Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero

Kirsty Eyre - Cow Girl (extract)

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Linda Fagioli-Katsiotas - Q&A

Linda Fairstein - Devil’s Bridge

Linda Fairstein - Killer Look

Jane Fallon - Q&A

Derek Farrell - Death of a Diva

Derek Farrell - Death of a Nobody

Lyn G Farrell - Q&A

Michael Farris Smith - Desperation Road (extract)

Eric Faye - Nagasaki

Lyndsay Faye - Timothy Wilde and the Myth of Modern Virtue (guest post)

Lyndsay Faye - Tammany Hall: the labor and the Irish in 19th century America (guest post)

Erica Ferencik - The River at Night

Erica Ferencik - Q&A

Katie Fforde - A French Affair

Katie Fforde - A Christmas in Disguise

Katie Fforde - The Perfect Match

Katie Fforde - A Secret Garden

Katie Fforde - A Vintage Wedding

Katie Fforde - A Summer at Sea

Elle Field - Q&A

Annabel Fielding - Q&A

Helen Fields - Perfect Remains (extract)

Helen Fields - Perfect Remains (review)

Clare Fisher - Q&A

Susan Fletcher - Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew

Tom Fletcher - Q&A

Sue Fortin - United States of Love

Christopher Fowler - The tricks behind Bryant and May (guest post

Christopher Fowler - The Book of Forgotten Authors

Christopher Fowler - Q&A

Phoebe Fox - The Breakup Doctor

Susi Fox - Q&A

Sarah Franklin - Shelter (extract)

Caro Fraser - The Summer House Party (extract)

Guy Fraser-Sampson - Death in Profile

Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman - Winter Siege

Claire Freedman and Ben Cort - Pirates Love Underpants

Kathryn Freeman - Too Charming

Kathryn Freeman - Writing a Christmas book…when it’s not Christmas (guest post)

Kate Frost - Q&A

Kate Furnivall - Q&A

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Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter

Lisa Gardner - Q&A

Sally Gardner - Tinder

Peter Gardos - Fever at Dawn

A.D. Garrett - Finding the Plot - Why I Outline (guest post)

Laurent Gaude - Hell’s Gate

Helene Gestern - The People in the Photo

Sara Gethin - Q&A

Fiona Gibson - The Woman Who Met Her Match (extract)

David Gilman - The Englishman (extract)

James Grady - Q&A

Lauren Graham - Talking As Fast As I Can

Linda Grant - The Dark Circle

Vanessa Greene - A little piece of my heart (guest post)

Kes Grey & Jim Field - Oi, Frog!

Kes Grey & Jim Field - Oi, Dog!

Helen Giltrow - The journey to publication Q&A

Peter Goulding - Q&A

Tara Guha - How to write a novel (event write up)

Johana Gustawsson - Block 46

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Jenny Hale - Why is Love Me for Me the perfect beach read? (guest post)

Linn B Halton - Forbidden

Maggie Hammad - Q&A

Kate Hamer - The Girl in the Red Coat

Sophie Hannah - Closed Casket

Emma Hannigan - The Summer Guest

John Harding - Q&A

Paul Hardisty - Six Qualities of a Great Thriller (guest post)

Jane Harper - The Dry

Jenny Harper - writing about her character Daisy (guest post)

Carmel Harrington - Q&A

Joanne Harris - Runemarks (Extract)

Aidan Harte - Q&A

Ben Hatch - Road to Rouen

Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train

Barbara Henderson - Stumbling onto stories (guest post)

J Paul Henderson - Getting an agent or going it alone (guest post)

Sue Hendra and Liz Pichon - Dave

Veronica Henry - How to Find Love in a Bookshop

David Hewson - The House of Dolls

David Hewson - Q&A

Kati Hiekkapelto - The Hummingbird

Kati Hiekkapelto - The Defenceless

Kati Hiekkapelto & Antti Tuomainen - Favourite Crime Films (guest post)

Sarah Hilary - Someone Else’s Skin

Sarah Hilary - No Other Darkness

Sarah Hilary - Tastes Like Fear

Sarah Hilary - Quieter Than Killing

Deidre Hines - The Language of Coats

Antonia Hodgson - The Devil and the Marshalsea

Alice Hoffman - The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Faith Hogan - Q&A

Phil Hogan - A Pleasure and a Calling

Ruth Hogan - The Keeper of Lost Things

Ruth Hogan - A Piece of the Puzzle (guest post)

Catherine Hokin - Finding Margaret (guest post)

Wendy Holden - Q&A

SJI Holliday - The birth of the book baby (guest post)

Anna Hope - The Ballroom

Richarda Huch - The Last Summer

Kathryn Hughes - The Seventies - A Gastronomic Wasteland (guest post)

Richard Hull - Excellent Intentions

K S Hunter - Q&A

Sun-mi Hwang - The Dog Who Dared to Dream

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Laura Imai Messina - The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

Catharina Ingleman-Sundberg - Q&A

Deborah Install - Q&A

Jane Isaac - Where do your ideas come from? (guest post)

Jane Isaac - That All Important Research (guest post)

Jane Isaac - Q&A

Hamid Ismailov - The Dead Lake

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Hope Jahren - Lab Girl

Daisy James - Rosie Hamilton from The Runaway Bridesmaid (guest post)

Heidi James - Q&A

Laura James - The appeal of romantic fiction (guest post)

Laura James - Truth or Dare?

Mandy James - Q&A

Tove Jansson - The Summer Book

Anna Jaqueiry - The Lying Down Room

Anna Jaqueiry - Death in the Rainy Season

Anna Jaqueiry - Q&A

Sarah Jasmon - Q&A

J Jefferson Farjeon - Mystery in White

Amanda Jennings - In Her Wake

Amanda Jennings - Q&A

Ragnar Jonasson - Snowblind

Ragnar Jonasson - Nightblind

Ragnar Jonasson - Rupture

Ragnar Jonasson - Q&A

Alan Jones - Q&A

Robin Jones and Ashley Stokes (editors) - Unthology 4

Sandie Jones - The Half Sister (extract)

Jack Jordan - Q&A

Jack Jordan - What it really means to be a self-published author

Rachel Joyce - Miss Benson’s Beetle

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Jenny Kane - Midsummer Dreams at Mill Grange (extract)

M.R.C. Kasasian - The Mangle Street Murders

M.R.C. Kasasian - The Curse of the House of Foskett

Emma Kavanagh - The Missing Hours

Emma Kavanagh - Falling

Emma Kavanagh - Hidden

Jonathan Kellerman - Breakdown

Jonathan Kellerman - Guilt

Jonathan Kellerman - Killer

Jonathan Kellerman - Heartbreak Hotel

Jonathan Kellerman - series link

Julia Kelly - Q&A

Laura Kemp - The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness

Christobel Kent - Setting the scene (guest post)

Christobel Kent - The Crooked House

Virginia King - The Champagne in the freezer (guest post)

Suzanne F Kingsmill - Dying for Murder

Renee Knight - Disclaimer

Dorothy Koomson - All My Lies Are True (guest post)

Michelle de Kretser - Springtime

Chris Kuzneski - Writer’s infidelity guest post

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Lynda LaPlante - The Escape

Lucy Lawrie - Debut feature

Peter Laws - Purged

Antoine Laurain - The President’s Hat

Antoine Laurain - The Red Notebook

Simon Lelic - The House

Donna Leon - The Golden Egg

Donna Leon - By Its Cover

Donna Leon - Falling in Love

Donna Leon - The Waters of Eternal Youth

Donna Leon - Earthly Remains

Patricia Leslie - The Quiet Writer (guest post)

Jon Lier Horst - My Friend in Crime

Winne M Li - Q&A

Elizabeth Little - Dear Daughter

Alison Littlewood - Q&A

Amy Lloyd - Q&A

Stephen Lloyd Jones - Top 5 writing tips (guest post)

Ethan Long - Fright Club

Sarah Lotz - The Three

Carol Lovekin - A is for Author (guest post)

Carol Lovekin - Q&A

Katey Lovell - On her Meet Cute series (guest post)

Katey Lovell - My Favourite romantic reads (guest post)

Catherine Lowell - The Madwoman Upstairs

Rachael Lucas - Coming Up Roses

Rachael Lucas - Wildflower Bay

Rosamund Lupton - The Quality of Silence

C.J. Lyons - Last Light

Tara Lyons - Q&A

Jane Lythell - Q&A

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Sharon Maas - Q&A

Rowena Macdonald - Q&A

Rebecca MacKenzie - Influences on writing In a Land of Paper Gods (guest post)

Gilly Macmillan - Q&A

Gilly Macmillan - Q&A (2)

Adrian Magson - Rocco and the Nightingale

Adrian Magson - Simple Technology (guest post)

Imran Mahmood - Q&A

Karen Maitland - A plague on all your cats (guest post)

Michael J Malone - Research (guest post)

Michael J Malone - Q&A

Ruth Mancini - Q&A 1

Ruth Mancini - Q&A 2

Sarra Manning - It Felt Like a Kiss

Jill Mansell - You and Me, Always

Jill Mansell - Meet Me At Beachcomber Bay

Jill Mansell - Q&A

Hemmie Martin - Q&A

Holly Martin - The Sentinel

Holly Martin - Inspiration for The Guestbook

Rebecca Mascull - The Visitors

Rebecca Mascull - The Editing Process (guest post)

Graham Masterton - Q&A

David Matthews - Q&A

Helen Matthews - Q&A

Peter May - Runaway

Peter May - Q&A

Stephen May - Q&A

Anna Mazzola - The Unseeing

Anna Mazzola - Legal Lore: The real case behind The Unseeing (guest post)

Colette McBeth - The Life I Left Behind

Colette McBeth - An Act of Silence

Colette McBeth - Five mistakes I’ve made (guest post)

Morgan McCarthy - A few tips on getting published (guest post)

Morgan McCarthy - Nine Neglected Houses in Novels (guest post)

Grace McCleen - The Offering

A.P. McCoy -Taking the Fall

Val McDermid - Northanger Abbey

Gary McElkerney - Volunteer

Marjory McGinn - Q&A

Claire McGowan - Q&A

M.J. McGrath - The Bone Seeker

Steve McHugh - Choose you own adventure (guest post)

Eimer McLysaght & Sarah Breen - Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!

Jennifer McVeigh - Every Story has its Genesis (guest post)

Anne Meredith - Portrait of a Murderer

Dan Micklethwaite - Q&A

Annika Milisic-Stanley - Writing about Strong Women in Exotic Locations (guest post)

Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

Beth Miller - Q&A

Mark B Mills - Waiting for Doggo

Liz Mistry - Unquiet Souls Extract

Scarlett Moffat - Me Life Story: Sofa So Good

J.S. Monroe - Q&A

Sue Moorcroft - Choosing a career for a character - guest post

Nikki Moore - Q&A

Sinead Moriarty - Q&A

J B Morrison - The Extraordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Aged 81

Abir Mukherjee - A Rising Man

Warren Murphy - Created, the Destroyer

Ben Myers - Q&A

Jung Myung-Lee - The Investigation

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Barbara Nadal - Cold heated killer? Moi? (guest post)

Sarah J Naughton - Tattletale

Annemarie Neary - Siren

Grant Nicol - Bucking the Trend and Q&A (guest post)

DB Nielson - The British Museum and Fantasy (guest post)

Claire North - Q&A

Liz Nugent - Unravelling Oliver

Liz Nugent - Lying in Wait

Liz Nugent - Q&A

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Carol O’Connell - Mallory’s Oracle

Sheila O’Flanagan - What this anniversary means to me (guest post)

Sheila O’Flanagan - Q&A

Sofi Oksanen - Norma

Aki Ollikainen - White Hunger

Ann O’Loughlin - Baking my troubles away (guest post)

Ann O’Loughlin - Q&A

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Natalie Page - Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventure review and Why write children’s fiction?

Mollie Panter-Downes - My Husband Simon

Harriet Paige - Q&A

Lev Parikian - The Unbound Experience (guest post)

P.I. Paris - From stage to page (guest post)

Nic Parker - Q&A

Phaedra Patrick - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Lesley Pearse - Q&A

Clare Pedrick - Q&A

Karen Perry - Q&A

Tasmina Perry - Why I set my novel in the Deep South (guest post)

Christina Philippou - Q&A

Sarah Pinborough - Mayhem

Sarah Pinborough - The Language of Dying

Raymond Postgate - Somebody at the Door

Amanda Prowse - A Little Love

Laura Purcell - Q&A

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Matthew Quick - Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

Anthony Quinn - The Blood-Dimmed Tide

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Rebecca Raisin- Q&A

Anne Randall/ AJ McCreanor - Q&A

Anne Randall - Themes in Torn (guest post)

Agnes Ravatn - The Bird Tribunal

Amanda Reynolds - The Inspiration Behind Close to Me (guest post)

Rod Reynolds - The Dark Inside

Danny Rhodes - Writing whilst working (guest post)

Rachel Rhys - A Dangerous Crossing

Miranda Richardson - A Parcel for Anna Browne

Shawn Reilly Simmons - Novels to Short Stories and Back Again (guest post)

Alison Ripley-Cubitt - Q&A

Chris Rivers Nuttall - Q&A

J.D. Robb - Obsession in Death

J.D. Robb - Echoes in Death

Vanessa Ronan - Q&A

Steven Rowley - Lily and the Octopus

Leigh Russell - Writing my first book (guest post)

William Ryan - The Constant Soldier

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Daniela Sacerdoti - How I assemble a book (guest post)

Daniela Sacerdoti - Q&A

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera - The Awakening of Miss Prim

Saskia Sarginson - Q&A

Kate Saunders - The Secrets of Wishtide

Sarah Schmidt - See What I Have Done

Triona Scully - Q&A

Holly Seddon - My favourite new reads (guest post)

Holly Seddon - Q&A

Rose Servitova - Q&A

Eve Seymour - Q&A

Julie Shackman - Guest post on romantic heroes

Sue Shepherd - Q&A

Sara Sheridan - Q&A

Jane Simmons - Come on, Daisy!

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project

Tracey Sinclair - The pleasures and perils of writing longhand (guest post)

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Margaret Skea - Q&A

Angie Smith - The Spy Who Chipped the China Teacup (extract)

Graham Smith - Q&A

Fleur Smithwick - Q&A

David Solomons - Not Another Happy Ending

Natasha Solomons - Q&A

Natasha Solomons - The Song Collector

Elaine Spires - Q&A

Nicholas Sparks - The Best of Me

Cath Staincliffe - Q&A

Gunnar Staalesen - Q&A

Michael Stanley - Deadly Harvest

Michael Stanley - Q&A

Jason Starr - Q&A

Erik Axl Sund - Q&A

Grant Sutherland - Q&A

Marie Suzin - Her Father’s Daughter

Jason Starr - Q&A

Marcie Steele - Q&A

Bernie Stevens - Q&A

Emily St John-Mandel - Station Eleven

James Swallow - Ghost (extract)

Graham Swift - Mothering Sunday

S D Sykes - The Butcher Bird

S D Sykes - Plague Land

S D Sykes - Q&A

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William G Tapply - Death at Charity’s Point

Leslie Tate - Heaven’s Rage, An Imaginary Autobiography (guest post)

D J Taylor - Wrote for Luck

Jon Teckman - Q&A

Tilly Tennant - Hopelessly Devoted to Holden Finn playlist guest post

Chris Tetrault-Blay - The Five Horsemen: The Influences that led me towards the (Wildermoor) Apocalypse (guest post)

Andrew Tierney - The Doctor’s Wife is Dead

Jo Thomas - Crete honey (guest post)

Jo Thomas - Q&A

Lesley Thomson - Q&A

Sally Thorne - The Hating Game

Oliver Tidy - The Journey to Publication (guest post)

Sophia Tobin - The Vanishing

G.X. Todd - Movies I loved in 2016 (guest post)

Janet Todd - Don’t You Know There’s A War On? (extract)

Laura Treacy Bentley - Q&A

Luke Tredget - Kismet (extract)

Joanna Trollope - Sense & Sensibility

Antti Tuomainen - The Man Who Died - and Got a Most Glorious Second Life (guest post)

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Sarah Vaughan - Anatomy of a Scandal

Peter Verhelst - The Man I Became

Caroline Vermalle - George’s Grand Tour

Sarah Vincent - All the Lonely People guest post

Tom Vowler - The merits and difficulties of writing from a female perspective guest post

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Caroline Wallace - The Finding of Martha Lost

Caroline Wallace - The Summer of ’76 (guest post)

Louise Walters - Q&A

Rachel Ward - Looking for Clues (guest post)

Sarah Ward - In Bitter Chill

Sarah Ward - A Deadly Thaw

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Pam Weaver - Q&A

Katherine Webb - Book Covers

Kaite Welsh - The Wages of Sin

Matt Wesolowski - Six Stories

Jack and Michael Whitehall - Him and Me

T A Williams - The highs and lows of being a writer

Laura Wilkinson - Q&A

Lorraine Wilson - The Art of Seduction inspiration (guest post)

Sarah Winman - Tin Man

Monica Wood - The One-in-a-Million Boy

Carol E Wyer - Grumpy Old Menopause

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Natalie Young - Season to Taste

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Koethi Zan - Q&A

Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry