It is just a Word

I had the very lucky opportunity of interviewing Laura Barnett, Author of the fantastic Richard & Judy Book Club read: The Versions of...

Girls on Fire is a wicked, wicked novel, in both senses of the word. So rarely does a book frighten and yet compell you to go on. I've...

If you've ever had to undergo any kind of job interview you know the drill. Nervous knee jiggling. Your mouth-irritanginly dry. Sweaty...

Mark Twain once said: ‘Write what you know’ and it is something that has echoed around my writerly conscious for a long time. Write about...

Up until recently, I had disregarded audio books. I did not think they fulfilled the sensory experience that came from reading a book...

Published in The Very Best of 81 Words She stared from above the crib, the pillow pressed against her aching chest; every morning the...

With the release of Lionsgates’ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies in a few...

Pequeña The powder her papa holds in the Casa-Ley freezer bag is white. The white stuff, she calls it. When she asks him what it is he...

She named him Jack after the bottle of whisky she drowned herself in whilst he, bloody and screaming, slipped out from between her thighs...

I don’t want the stars anymore, Scratch them out of the night sky, like faults and freckles on the darkest skin, Throw them in the...