by Maddy Burgess | Jun 2, 2023 | longer reads, Planet
Ahead of the Women’s Prize for Fiction winner being announced in two weeks, BLOT sat down with Laline Paull, author of shortlisted book POD to talk about fighting the environmental crisis through fiction. If Laline Paull had to describe her Women’s Prize shortlisted...
by Liseli Thomas | Jun 2, 2023 | Library
Liseli, from the BLOT team, sat down with author Garry Kilworth to uncover the journey of his impressive career. We’ll get to the novelisation of Highlander, to the crazy adventures that came with travelling across the world from the age of 15 to spending 19 years in...
by Liseli Thomas | Jun 1, 2023 | Library
BLOT sat down with Garry Kilworth, author of the novelised Highlander to find out all we could about his impressive career. You can read the full interview with Garry if you subscribe to our June newsletter – BLOT Bookmarked! Q1. What’s one interesting fact...
by Shruthi Selvarajan | May 31, 2023 | Identity, longer reads
Based in 17th century France, One For All tells the story of a chronically ill musketeer – Tania de Batz, a young girl fighting a battle that has more to do with the condescending world rather than her illness itself. Chronic illness representation in fiction...
by Arthur Barratt | May 31, 2023 | longer reads, Society
Social worker by day, writer by night, Luna McNamara is the author of Psyche and Eros, a feminist retelling of the Greek myth of the same name. The book was subject to a four-way bidding war for publishing rights in the U.S., and has received translation deals in 11...