Books

Ogden Nash called the dog ‘Man’s Best Friend’. ‘Woman’s Best Friend’ say I! And more than a friend; a guide and mentor. Years ago, I read in some magazine a ...

-  We collaborate to write steampunk; the concepts, innovations, the characters the imagineering, are all shared. We’ve fallen in love with it too. Steampunk is a fantasy that is rich ...

When readers first encounter Cassie McAllister, the protagonist of A User’s Guide To Make-Believe, they’re meeting a young woman whose life is a mess. Cassie used to work for the ...

I was angry and I was tired. That’s the simple version of why I started writing the book. I was about to turn thirty and had been struggling to write ...

I’m often asked why I choose to write about strong female characters. The answer is easy – I think women are amazing. In fact, most of the women I’ve ever ...

Joanna Toye’s Shop Girls series takes you back to when department stores were the place to shop – even in wartime.  Department stores are having a tough time - Debenhams is closing almost a third of its stores and the House of ...

In my short story collection, The Heartsick Diaspora (Myriad Editions UK, 2020), I widely reference different aspects of Chinese culture. Cognisant of all that they mean and represent within the ...