Seeking inspiration

Mine was a shy courtship that began during my GCSEs. Story snippets were starting to leak from the margins of my school books. My...

"Where do you get your ideas?"

A great many writers will profess to hate being asked this stinky old...

“Where does it all come from?” runs that favourite query of literary festival audiences. “Where do you get your ideas and your inspiration?”...

My most treasured childhood books all have little puffins on their spines. Roald Dahl’s stories sparked my love...

She felt the impetus to get started on her first novel when she had two small children and was pregnant with her third. She was also...

I used to write hard-hitting teenage books about modern problems: teenage pregnancy, the dangers of going off to meet internet friends, how to...