Fiction

Listen to a clip from Missing You by Louise Douglas, read by Julia Franklin.

Brian Payton answers your questions

Do you dream of becoming an author?

The Forgotten Queens: Three women we should all know about

How I lost 17 years of my life overnight

Why it's never too late to go back to school

The book cover for The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher

From page to big screen: 'A novel is an expansive beach, and a screenplay is a thimble full of sand'

Is that retired CIA agent based on me?' 'No, Mum, she isn't.'

Jane Green's paleo-inspired American pancakes!

Jessie Keane on love and loss at Christmas time

Kerry Wilkinson spills all on men writing women