Charlotte Duckworth was looking for novels that reflected her experience of new motherhood but couldn’t find. So she wrote The Rival. It’s gritty, relatable in parts, shocking and has unbelievable twists. Here, Charlotte explains how she came up with the story…
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Family
Her first storybook – Parrots Don’t Live in the City! – launched this summer. We talk to full time mum and debut children’s book author Lucy Reynolds about her own childhood, creativity and reading with her eight-month-old son…
Wellbeing
After a traumatic schooling experience; being racially bullied, Anoushka Beazley left school with two GCSEs. She tells us how this inspired her debut novel The Good Enough Mother, which is now stocked in Waterstones and Foyles…
Work Life
His Max et Lili books sell in the millions each year and over 200m people have viewed his animated SamSam series. Serge Bloch’s latest book The Big Adventure of a Little Line was published this week