Author Anne-Marie Conway on empowering kids with new book HOW TO BE MORE HEDGEHOG
If ever there was a book to offer a loving hand of support to those who struggle to muster words in public, Anne-Marie Conway’s How To Be More Hedgehog has succeeded.
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BRITTLE WITH RELICS: Searching for the Welsh identity, author Richard King traces 35 key years
Brittle With Relics’ author Richard King’s chronicling of Welsh oral history has been 10 years in the making. Luckily, he tells Adam England, it’s all been worth it.
Teens, toxicity and time travel: why THE ETERNAL RETURN OF CLARA HART will shake up the YA book world
Karla Brading speaks to first-time YA novelist Louise Finch who addresses teen-boy toxicity and the perils of time travel with The Eternal Return Of Clara Hart.
“Novel-writing is scary – you’ve created a whole reality in your head” – TOXIC author NATASHA DEVON talks social media, fiction & mental health
Writer, speaker and campaigner Natasha Devon explores unlikely friendships, social media obsession, poor mental health and more in her latest YA book, Toxic. Karla Brading grabbed some words with the tireless wordsmith.
“Representation is often unfairly reserved for minor characters” – Welsh novelist Caryl Lewis on debut kids book SEED
Karla Brading speaks to a novelist who has written variously in Welsh and English, and has a new title Seed, her debut kids’ novel, out this month.
“If I can make it, God, anyone can!” – ‘bonkbuster’ queen MELANIE BLAKE on her unlikely author success
Self-styled “author returning to escapism” Melanie Blake was a go-nowhere schoolgirl, but the runaway success of Ruthless Women changed all of that.
“I wanted Fantine to save herself, for better or worse” – writer REBECCA F. JOHN on reclaiming LES MISERABLES from the male gaze
With her latest novel Fannie, an ingenious spin on Les Misérables’ tragic Fantine, getting glowing reviews, Joshua Rees spoke to tireless south Wales writer Rebecca F. John.
JOANNA NADIN | AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Karla Brading hears from a writer who, once upon a time, was employed as Tony Blair’s special adviser and whose latest book, No Man’s Land, depicts a society rapidly descending into a wartorn dystopia.
SUSAN BROWNRIGG | AUTHOR INTERVIEW
All aboard, me hearties! Karla Brading has been talking to Lancashire lass Susan Brownrigg about her recent swashbuckling release, Kintana And The Captain’s Curse, illustrated by the talented Jenny Czerwonka.
LUKE PALMER | AUTHOR INTERVIEW
LUKE PALMER | AUTHOR INTERVIEW Poet, author and teacher Luke Palmer has battled with the theme of ‘radicalised youths’ in his thought-provoking and unsettling new novel, Grow. Karla Brading …
REBECCA ROBERTS | INTERVIEW
REBECCA ROBERTS | INTERVIEW This author from Prestatyn is nothing if not versatile, having written for adult and young adult markets in both Welsh and English. Her third and …
BUZZ CULTURE: RACHEL TREZISE | INTERVIEW FEATURE
BUZZ CULTURE: RACHEL TREZISE | INTERVIEW FEATURE Easy Meat, the new work by much-admired novelist Rachel Trezise, is another slice of Valleys life, set in the Brexit crunch time …