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“I've certainly met men like Cole and you are fooled by them because they're fooling themselves. They're so dangerous and insidious for that reason, because you are actually sucked in a bit” - Araminta HallAre you “one of the good guys”, suppo
“This senior copper said to me, Well, you have to remember we're dealing with criminals who know no restraints at all, who are just absolutely hard bastards with no emotion and no compassion. We have to have a few of them in our ranks to balanc
“I didn't get to see my family or Georgia for 17 years. So when I did go back, I found it really strange, really surreal. That was very emotional for me. So I started writing it really trying to make sense of it in my own head.” -Leo Vardiashvi
“I am probably the consumer from hell when it comes to this stuff, and I do like to believe that I’m fighting on behalf of other people. Some sort of consumer rights, compliance vigilante.” -Christian HuntIf you’ve ever spotted a road sign tha
“There are many, many ways to be a deaf person, but the important thing is to think about the ways in which you embrace it” -Sarah MarshThe word ‘deaf’ encompasses so many different lived experiences. And by its very nature it’s hard to commun
“What we want is people in extreme situations. We enjoy watching people pushed to their emotional limits.” - L.D. SmithsonHave you ever watched a reality TV show and thought ‘I could do that’? It’s one thing watching the events unfold on-scree
“She felt she had a duty to protect all these people. And the Villa very much became, for Iris, a refuge for everybody” - Fiona ValpyIn the past, a wartime heroine shelters people from the ravages of war. In the modern era, the villa once used
“They’re kind of flags mounted in occupied territory. That's the idea of a tattoo on the female form. Because the female form is a political space. It's a space of contention and conflict.” - Joelle TaylorA tattoo can tell the most profound st
“What a great idea if, through this grieving process both of them could heal - could come to understand the other through the vehicle of poetry” - Diana JanneyPoetry and philosophy bring together two fractured souls, 12 year old Rufus Ellerton
“No one wakes up a horrible person. It's something that takes hold over time. It's about worldview, formative experiences, and what you were told growing up as a kid. And I try very hard to think about that stuff because… you can feel it.” - To
“Height of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis had happened just a year before. The last thing you want is to show the world’s superpower to be so incompetent that they shot their own president. And you can understand why they would cover th
“How many weddings have you gone to where you don't really know very many other people at the wedding? And it's trying to make those connections of who is who. It was something I wanted to recreate for the reader.”Between deciding the guest-li
“Loving a country is also never ceasing to be demanding. Through that book I asked my city to do something else, to change the system. I have a bittersweet relationship with the city. I love it. And at the same time, I have a little bit of ange
“Her love is quite possessive, wanting to become the other person, owning the man, or becoming whole and finally complete. But the thing is, she's never going to complete herself because the wound is too deep.”Between 14 and 40. That’s how man
“I wanted to start with a very unstable, shaky foundation in order to create a world of voltage and heat and fire. Each book in the series is its own little storm.”The hardboiled genre has received a complete makeover. Holiday is a queer, chai
“What you want from that gothic house is the sense of being overwhelmed by scale, while also having a sense of unease and claustrophobia as well. Those two things, twinned together.”The Regent Hotel in Birmingham may be grand, but beneath its
“One person told me he got to a point where he didn't actually care whether he lived or died. He felt so ill that he had hallucinations. So it's a risk. It's a risk.”For the people who’ve climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, making it to the summit is m
“I don't think anyone could have looked at the Patterson family and said, “oh, what a conventionally successful party”. But I did want to honour them. And I realised I was actually and am proud of them because they did it. They loved, they were
“Kala is the Sinatra of the book. You have all these different perspectives on her. My hope was that having these panoramic perspectives would create spaces for the reader to create their own relationship to Kala.”A town with a series of dark
“It's so welcoming. The people are wonderful. It's beautiful. It was really where I thought I could see myself living and building a life. And then when I found out about that murder, it did raise the hairs on the back of my neck.”How does a p
“Having that realisation of looking back on a memory that they really prized and valued, and realising that it was something a little bit darker and that they were perhaps taken advantage of. It is something that's really troubling for people.”
“Her story in my mind is sort of a two steps forward, one step back kind of journey. It's not that we face one major challenge in our life and suddenly we are these wise and capable people.”In life, there isn’t one straight road out of adversi
“It’s that question ‘What if?’ ‘What if I had done this differently?’ And it's something I'm really obsessed with in my own life.”The death of a main character is often a controversial and difficult moment in any work of literature - but what
“The reason I thought the cleaner had taken my brush wasn’t because of value. It was to get back at me, you see.”What started as the innocuous tale of a missing hairbrush, potentially stolen by a hotel cleaner, quickly turned into an exciting
“He’s carrying this post-colonial sense that many Black people, many Nigerians and Africans feel. Like, we feel we are subservient - we are not good enough as white people.”Andrew Aziza is a 15 year old boy growing up in Kontagora in Northern
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