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A Letter From Joe Hill - Author of King Sorrow (October 2025 PREM1ER)

A Letter From Joe Hill - Author of King Sorrow ...

Rebecca McDonnell

Dear Reader, It’s been almost a decade since my last novel, The Fireman, and how’s that for a head trip? It wasn’t like I pulled a J.D. Salinger vanishing act....

Rebecca McDonnell

A Letter From Joe Hill - Author of King Sorrow ...

Dear Reader, It’s been almost a decade since my last novel, The Fireman, and how’s that for a head trip? It wasn’t like I pulled a J.D. Salinger vanishing act....

Behind the Matchbox Girl: Unearthing Forgotten Voices in Vienna

Behind the Matchbox Girl: Unearthing Forgotten ...

Rebecca McDonnell

Dear Readers, The writing of The Matchbox Girl began with a simple question: who was the real Dr Asperger? Back in 2017, when I first began to read about Dr...

Rebecca McDonnell

Behind the Matchbox Girl: Unearthing Forgotten ...

Dear Readers, The writing of The Matchbox Girl began with a simple question: who was the real Dr Asperger? Back in 2017, when I first began to read about Dr...

From Penpals to Shadows: The Echoes of Iceland’s Past - A Letter from Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

From Penpals to Shadows: The Echoes of Iceland’...

Rebecca McDonnell

August 2025 Dear Reader, When I was a little girl, my great-grandmother would always save the children’s section of the Sunday morning newspaper for me. It wasn’t just puzzles and...

Rebecca McDonnell

From Penpals to Shadows: The Echoes of Iceland’...

August 2025 Dear Reader, When I was a little girl, my great-grandmother would always save the children’s section of the Sunday morning newspaper for me. It wasn’t just puzzles and...

Gold, Grit and Hidden Histories: Behind the Scenes of The Rush

Gold, Grit and Hidden Histories: Behind the Sce...

Rebecca McDonnell

What drew you to the Klondike Gold Rush as the setting for a novel? I‘ve always loved the scale and romance of a gold rush, where a life-changing fortune isthere...

Rebecca McDonnell

Gold, Grit and Hidden Histories: Behind the Sce...

What drew you to the Klondike Gold Rush as the setting for a novel? I‘ve always loved the scale and romance of a gold rush, where a life-changing fortune isthere...

Behind the book: Author Letter from A. A. Dhand

Behind the book: Author Letter from A. A. Dhand

Goldsboro Books

I wrote this novel with rage, for a forgotten community and, indeed, a forgotten profession. We have all, at some point, entered a community pharmacy and accepted help from the...

Goldsboro Books

Behind the book: Author Letter from A. A. Dhand

I wrote this novel with rage, for a forgotten community and, indeed, a forgotten profession. We have all, at some point, entered a community pharmacy and accepted help from the...

Behind the Scenes: A Q&A with Florence Knapp

Behind the Scenes: A Q&A with Florence Knapp

Goldsboro Books

Although I find the traditional meanings of names interesting, I’m more fascinated by the subconscious associations we bring to them, and how these might influence us. When we learn someone’s...

Goldsboro Books

Behind the Scenes: A Q&A with Florence Knapp

Although I find the traditional meanings of names interesting, I’m more fascinated by the subconscious associations we bring to them, and how these might influence us. When we learn someone’s...