Awais Khan

First of all, tell us a bit about your journey. When did you realise that you wanted to be a writer? I grew up in Karachi, in a home filled with hand-written letters, books, ghazals and an abundance of dreams, where a lot would be traded materially for an intellectually or spiritually uplifting experience and […]

First of all, thank you so much for doing this interview. To kick things off, what got you into writing in the first place? Is a career in consulting conducive for writing? There are many parallels between strategy consulting and writing fiction. You have to make the story compelling, logical and believable – where it […]

Today, the name ‘Juliet Mushens’ is synonymous with success. Tell us a bit about how you started. I began my career in 2008 at HarperCollins Publishers when I joined the fiction marketing department as an assistant working across their commercial fiction list. I absolutely loved the experience of helping to come up with marketing copy […]

Crime fiction is a saturated market. Every month, hundreds of crime fiction titles are released which only serve to add to an already flooded market. Some of these books get significant marketing spend and publicity, but often it is word of mouth that helps most books succeed. Gorevan’s The Hostage is one such title. Lindsey […]

Fantasy is notoriously difficult to write. Not only do you have to worry about creating gripping, compelling characters that leap off the page, you also have to create a completely new world. It sounds like a cake walk, but it certainly isn’t. Published by Monolith Books, Out of Atlas is the first part in the […]

Having written two gripping and highly original legal thriller/police procedurals with The Scribe and The Abduction, She’s Mine is AA Chaudhuri’s first venture into psychological thriller writing, a genre that suits her writing style to perfection. Meticulously plotted from start to finish it ticks all the boxes in terms of what every fan of this […]

It isn’t often that a book touches you in a way that you find yourself thinking about it long after you’ve turned the final page. The Image of Her is one of those books. Stella lives with her mother, a smothering narcissist. When she succumbs to dementia, the pressures on Stella’s world intensify, culminating in […]

Good thrillers are hard to find these days. AA Chaudhuri, however, manages to pack a punch with her debut as it it’s nothing. First off, I loved the unique premise of this book: a serial killer is targeting former students of The Bloomsbury Academy of Law, killing in line with a pattern corresponding with the […]

The literature scene is riddled with crime fiction. Thousands of books in the genre are published every year in a bid to satisfy the seemingly insatiable appetite of readers. In this flooded and highly competitive market, standing out is hard, so when a book achieves to do just that, it is worth exploring why that’s […]