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“I plan to stick with this new darker approach” – Author Sam Baker talks about ‘The Woman Who Ran’

Sam Baker grew up in Hampshire and after a degree in politics at Birmingham University became a journalist, going on to edit some of the UK’s biggest magazines. For six years she was Editor in Chief of Red magazine, where she set up the Red Hot Women Awards recognising achievement… Read More

Author Paul Finch talks to Indie Thinking

Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist, now turned full-time writer. He cut his literary teeth penning episodes of the British TV crime drama, The Bill, and has written extensively in the field of children’s animation and for Dr Who. However, he is probably best known for his work… Read More

A letter from author Mary Chamberlain

Spanning the intense years of war, The Dressmaker of Dachau is a dramatic tale of love, conflict, betrayal and survival. Here, author Mary Chamberlain talks about finding inspiration for her novel within her own family history. I turned to writing fiction after a career as a historian so… Read More

A note to booksellers from Amelia Freer

In Eat. Nourish. Glow., nutritional therapist and healthy eating expert Amelia Freer explains her 10 steps and provides over 25 enticing recipes to get you started on your path to optimum wellness. Here she tells you about how she got to where she is today and a little more about Eat Nourish… Read More

A Q&A with Elizabeth McKenzie

Elizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She lives in Santa Cruz, California. Her new novel, The Portable Veblen, is a riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning… Read More

A letter from Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Recently, my lovely publisher asked me to write a short piece about the story behind my book The Trouble With Goats and Sheep.  So many people have supported my writing, from the very beginning of this blog, so I thought you might like to read it too. It’s also… Read More

Recommended by Blackwell’s Edinburgh: Ice Like Fire, Demon Road and Fire Colour One

Lara Mieduniecki and Isla Macfarlane from Blackwell’s Bookshop in Edinburgh recommend a great selection of YA titles from 2015. Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch It’s been three months since the Winterians were freed and Spring’s king, Angra, disappeared—thanks largely to the help of Cordell. Meira just wants her people… Read More

Recommended by UK Sales Assistant Lies D’Hondt: Eleanor by Jason Gurley

1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she’s always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. 1985 Agnes’s daughter Eleanor is six years… Read More

Recommended by the Local Sales Team: Spring 2016 Titles

Have a browse through the top picks for Spring 2016 from the Local & Field Sales Team: Adam Murray (Wales, Midlands & North) recommends….. Forces of Nature by Brian Cox “‘Why is the sky blue?’, ‘Why is the Earth round?’, and ‘Why is every snowflake different?’ – These are the… Read More

HarperCollins Book Club Interview with Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is the author of five books: All The Light We Cannot See, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome and Memory Wall. Doerr’s short fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New… Read More

Ten Questions for Jenny Valentine

1) Did you always know you wanted to be an author? If not what did you want to be when you were a child? Yes I did! My mum gave me a notebook when I was about eight or nine. It looked like a novel on the outside and inside… Read More

5 Questions for Books On The Hill

Books On The Hill is an independent bookshop in Clevedon which is run by Dr. Alistair Sims and his partner, Chloe Smirk. Here, Alistair talks about the surprises and challenges of running a bookshop, as well as what they’re looking forward to in 2016. You can find their website here:… Read More

Five Novels that Inspired Me – James McGee

The Blooding author James McGee has taken the time to talk about the novels he wished he could have written – If you’re expecting them all to be historical in content, think again! Though, having said that… Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Probably… Read More

A letter to Booksellers from Liz Trenow

  Dear bookseller friends, When HarperCollins suggested I might write a novel based on the First World War I wondered if it was possible to say anything new. But then I realised: relatively little had been written about the war from a woman’s perspective. A hundred years ago, thousands of… Read More

Five Questions for Christian Rudder

Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder, founder of one of the world’s biggest dating websites OkCupid, puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Read More