Painting Stories with Polly Crosby
To celebrate the upcoming release of The Illustrated Child by Polly Crosby, out this thursday, Polly is on the blog … Continued
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World Teachers Day with Claudia Winkleman
Teachers are such an important part of growing up. To celebrate World Teachers Day, we have an extract from Claudia
Read an exclusive extract of Sarah Morgan’s brand new Christmas novel!
The eagerly anticipated new Christmas read from the Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Morgan is nearly here! If you haven’t seen
Why We Love to Read – Reading Together Day
Here at HQ Stories, we love to read. We are often found with a book in hand or shouting about
A Place for Everything with Anna Wilson
We are delighted that Anna Wilson is here on the blog to talk about her acclaimed, moving and honest memoir
Faith Martin on why 1960s Oxford is the perfect setting for crime
Many people have asked me why I decided to write a crime series set in the 1960s after writing contemporary
Diversify: How to challenge inequality, and why we should
‘Nothing changes if we do nothing or do what we’ve always done. All of us who want a better environment
20 books. 20 years. 20 questions.
Join us on our Facebook page Thursday May 21st at 3pm as Adele Parks goes LIVE for the HQ Book
#ShowUsYourShelves
Last week we asked you, our lovely HQ family, to #ShowUsYourShelves – and you certainly rose to the challenge. We
Discover This Lovely City with London’s Top Jazz Clubs
Louise Hare’s This Lovely City is a poignant story set against the backdrop of London in the Windrush era. The
Writing Nightingale Point – Luan Goldie’s Story
Ahead of the paperback publication of Nightingale Point, Luan Goldie reflects on the inspiration behind her brilliant and moving novel and gives
Christmas left-overs? No problem!
Wondering what to do with all that left-over turkey? The Batch Lady, aka Suzanne Mulholland, is here to help. “It’s
VALIDATE ME competition winner!
VALIDATE ME by Charly Cox was published last month and to mark the occasion, we launched a poetry competition judged
It’s about bloody time
Periods kept following me around. And not just literally in my pants once a month. After I unwittingly became the first person in the UK to announce I was having one live on TV news and that it bloody hurt – I was nervously approached by women and men – all of whom had a shy hunger to tell me their or their loved one’s story.
Love for the Island
Bestselling author Ross Armstrong tells us why there’s very little on television at the moment that he finds more revealing, more extreme and ridiculous, more hilarious, and more human, than Love Island.