Read a piece from The Followers author Maree Spratt on girlhood.

Read an extract from the 20th anniversary edition of The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton.

In our debut spotlight series, we introduce you to your next favourite authors. This month, meet Maree Spratt!

Reinvention is easy when it's online.... Beautiful, manipulative Lacey is a lifestyle influencer turned bestselling author who preaches self-love and body confidence to her million followers. But one of those followers is Teresa. She remembers Lacey as a prepubescent mean girl who kept the loyal members of her gang—Teresa included—on a short leash. Twenty years later, she watches Lacey from afar with the ghost of her younger self and a copy of Lacey's new self-help book for c

Read an extract from Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern.

Read an extract from the latest Léonie Kelsall novel.

What if one decision changed the course of your whole life? Petronella McGovern shares the inspiration for her twisty new thriller.

Read an extract from Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix.

We talk to Maya Linnell, author of Sunrise at Sunny Cross Farm.

Read an extract from Over to You by Georgie Tunny.

We chat with author/illustrator legend Alison Lester about 15 years of Noni the Pony.

Bake some scrumptious scones courtesy of Maya Linnell's Sunrise at Sunny Cross Farm.

We chat with Murder at Thornwood Park author Joan Sauers.

Read an extract from The Bookshop of Buried Past by Sarah Clutton.

Read an extract from Murder at Thornwood Park by Joan Sauers.

Start reading The Missing Mother by Mali Cornish.

Read a piece from The Missing Mother author Mali Cornish.

Read a piece from Kirsty Manning about the setting of her glamorous new book.

Read an extract from Murder in Paris by Kirsty Manning.

Read a piece written by Periodic Bitch author Emma Hardy.