Amelia Brookes

This February, Musicality: The University of Nottingham’s Musical Theatre Society will present ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’. As a member of Musicality and having been involved in Main Show Productions before, Hattie Rothwell-Inch was thrilled to chat to producer Carla Davidson and members Harri Evans and Megan Longhurst about their...

Stone Blind is a fairly new book, having only come out in September 2022, but it’s likely to join the ranks of other lauded retellings such as Song of Achilles, Circe and Silence of the Girls, says Adaora Elliott....

Emma Robinson reports on how many libraries around the UK are under threat as local councils fight for funding....

For the Creative Showcase, Bethan shares with us the haikus she wrote for the spooky time of the year....

Sequel. It has become a dreaded word in the literary world. So often, a sequel fails to live up to the brilliance of its predecessor. Amy Child asks why does ‘Second Book Syndrome’ affect so many stories, even those by talented writers?...

Bethan Beddow Fantasy is a genre where the reader is thrown into a completely new world of unlimited imagination, of faeries and goblins, of supernatural wars and celestial magic. It allows us to explore the depths of our untethered minds; we visualise alien kings and mermaid queens and pretend...

Greek Myths: A New Retelling is an endearing reimagining of classical Greek tales putting women at the forefront. Charlotte Higgins invites the reader to explore the inherent sexism of the orthodox tellings of Greek myth, and in doing shows the importance of women in every story....