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Issue 103

The problem with YA Author and bookseller Emma Whitehall looks at literature's hottest genre

Bedside table Roxane Gay tells us what’s on her nightstand

Interview Frances Byrnes chats to Call the Midwife writer Heidi Thomas

Deep waters Chioma Okereke on the challenges of writing characters from different class backgrounds

Will you join the dance? Rosie Garland and Meg Pokrass on creative collaboration

The knowledge Julie Vuong on what's hot in time travel fiction

PLUS: Poet and editor Degna Stone introduces their chosen stories and poems on the theme of 'red'

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Inspired, inspiring, invaluable.

Sarah Waters

Entertaining, insightful and unpredictable. No woman who is serious about writing should be without it.

Sophie Hannah

I like the non-elitist way it deals with all kinds of writing.

Wendy Cope