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Carrie Hope Fletcher’s Top Five Meet-Cute Stories

We all love a lovely rom-com where the couple is thrown together in the most wonderful of ways. And in an exclusive piece for the HQ blog, Sunday Times bestselling author Carrie Hope Fletcher tells us about her top five meet-cute stories from some of her favourite novels. Read Carrie’s… Read More

Nadine Matheson: To All the Serial Killers I’ve Loved Before

It was almost serendipitous that in the week we published the hardback of Nadine Matheson’s debut novel The Jigsaw Man, we also celebrated the 30th anniversary of the film The Silence of the Lambs. Both the book and the film set a new standard for not only crime fiction… Read More

Rosie Nixon’s Top 15 Tips for bringing more kindness to the world

Be Kind is a small book with a big heart and an important message. Kindness can change the world. Yes, really! And it starts, today, with you. Kindness costs nothing; it isn’t about grand gestures and it doesn’t care who you are or where you are from. Kindness is… Read More

Rebecca Raisin’s favourite things about Christmas

To celebrate the release of Rebecca Raisin’s new Christmas hilarious romance Flora’s Travelling Christmas Shop, we asked the author to create a list (as he’ll be checking it twice) of her favourite things about Christmas. Read on to feel the Christmas spirit. My… Read More

Don’t be a kittenfish: 6 dating terms you need to know!

Last Girl Ghosted, the latest gripping psychological thriller from Lisa Unger, is out now! To celebrate, Lisa joins us to teach us the language of (modern!) love… Do you know what breadcrumbing is?! You meet someone through a dating app. And it seems to be going well. You… Read More

Five date ideas for when the sun comes out

To celebrate the release of the laugh-your-socks-off romcom The A to Z of Us by Hannah Doyle, the author is here on the blog to share her top five date ideas now that the sun has come out! Five Date Ideas for when the Sun… Read More

Roz Watkins is going back to bookshops!

My relationship with bookshops got off to a bad start. My dad used to take me and my brother shopping when we were very small, and his idea of shopping involved forgetting to buy any food, but going into every second-hand bookshop that we passed. He’d spend several days in… Read More

A.M. Castle’s top five tips for writing Thrillers!

Are you trying to write a thriller but have no clue where to begin? Are you looking for some writing advice? Have no fear, A.M. Castle is here! The author of The Invitation, the upcoming new locked mystery, is here to share her top five tips… Read More

Five books that inspired The Invitation

To celebrate the upcoming release The Invitation, author A.M. Castle is here to share the five books that inspired her novel. From atmospheric thrillers to classic murder mysteries, stock up on ideas for your TBR in this blog post. Five books that inspired… Read More