This year bookings for the Festival are running at their highest ever levels and we’re expecting to have a sell-out crowd by the time it gets to September. So we want to do what we can to introduce our stellar … Continue reading →

The below is an extract from Emma Darwin’s article on Writing Historical Fiction for The History Girls blog This time last year I was asked to give a workshop on writing historical fiction at Guildford Book Festival, and although as … Continue reading →

Guest Blog from Jon Spira. Jon has written feature film scripts for Manga Live, Palm Pictures and a multitude of independent producers. He has taught the UK Film Council Screenwriting course since 2004. Anyone Can Play Guitar (directed by Jon … Continue reading →

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I’m writing this from my hotel room in New York – a city where I once spent six months as a twenty-something about to embark on a career as an investment banker. Although I’ve been back occasionally since then, I … Continue reading →

A Guest Blog from Fay Sampson. Fay is the author of numerous books for both adults and children. She has been shortlisted three times for the Guardian Children’s Book award, and is winner of the Barco de Vapor award for … Continue reading →

Guest Blog from Jon Spira. Jon has written feature film scripts for Manga Live, Palm Pictures and a multitude of independent producers. He has taught the UK Film Council Screenwriting course since 2004. Anyone Can Play Guitar (directed by Jon … Continue reading →

William’s most recent book is Something Noble (Orca/Raven), a Rapid Read for Reluctant Readers. A Notice from our regular guest blogger William Kowalski “Some of the books I write are Rapid Reads for reluctant adult readers. If you are a … Continue reading →

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A little while back, we asked you about you. What made you write. What you wrote. What you expect from your writing. And what holds you back. And here are the answers. I guess that most users of this site … Continue reading →

Just a very quick word to say that Barbara Tate’s bestselling novel West End Girls has been optioned for film by World Productions. Barbara was a lovely client of ours – now sadly, sadly passed on. But she’d have been … Continue reading →

A strange thing happened to me yesterday. Got an email from an exec at Columbia Pictures. (That executive in reality: probably a spotty twenty-two year old crammed into a small desk next to the copying machine. That executive in fantasy: … Continue reading →

Gary Gibson is the author of six science fiction novels for Pan Macmillan, the latest of which, Final Days, was published in August. The sequel, The Thousand Emperors, will be published in 2012. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland. Every time … Continue reading →

A Guest Blog from Dexter Petley. Dexter is the acclaimed author of a number of novels: a literary noir whodunnit, Little Nineveh (Polygon 1995), Joyride (Fourth Estate, 1999), and White Lies (Fourth Estate 2003). White Lies was shortlisted for the … Continue reading →

A Guest Blog from William Kowalski. William’s most recent book is Something Noble (Orca/Raven), a Rapid Read for Reluctant Readers. Language is a living, organic thing, and words have a habit of shifting meaning over time.  This is precisely what … Continue reading →

Gary Gibson is the author of six science fiction novels for Pan Macmillan, the latest of which, Final Days, was published in August. The sequel, The Thousand Emperors, will be published in 2012. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland. What is … Continue reading →