We were honoured to interview Kiran Millwood Hargrave, the author of The Mercies, our July NB Recommends! The Mercies has been an enormous success – congratulations! What was your initial inspiration for the book? It’s rare I can pinpoint the start of an idea, but The Mercies was an exception in this, and other ways. ...

Philipa Coughlan interviews Frank Gardner. Read Philipa’s review of his latest novel Outbreak here. Your third novel in the gripping, action packed Luke Carlton thriller series ‘Outbreak’ centres around a global terrorist threat from a deadly man-made virus. Was this a planned plot idea or did the Covid pandemic help to form the novel and ...

Your new novel is titled Still Life, can you tell us a little about the meaning behind this title and how it relates to the story? In the book, one of my main protagonists Evelyn, an older art historian, is trying to write an introduction to a lecture she’s going to give on Still Life ...

Interview by Philipa Coughlan. I finished reading ‘Kings of a Dead World’ on Earth Day, which seemed appropriate because of the themes of this novel and your involvement with Climate Fiction Writers. Is climate change a major concern now in your writing as it is in your life? Yes, absolutely. Surely it’s difficult not to ...

Interview with Paul Burke. Author Anna Bailey was born in Bristol and grew up in Gloucestershire. After studying creative writing at Bath Spa University she moved to America and later settled in Colorado. Her time there was bruising and is the inspiration for her debut novel Tall Bones. Anna returned to the UK in 2018. ...