Listicles

M.A. Kuzniar’s Festive Favourites!

We are already counting down the days to Christmas with M.A. Kuzniar, author of the utterly magic Midnight in Everwood! Joining us on this wonderfully festive Friday, M.A. Kuzniar shares with us her favourite things to read and watch when the weather starts to get a little colder… Read More

5 Reasons NOT To Fall In Love With Your Hot, Dead Editor

Here’s a little bit of advice for you – it would be better for everybody if you didn’t fall in love with your incredibly hot (and very, very dead) editor. Ashley Poston, author of the heartwarming and hilarious new romance novel The Dead Romantics, joins us on the blog… Read More

We’ve got the #BookTok bug!

Whether you’re looking for a cure for your book hangover or you’re searching for something to finally pull you out of that reading slump, here are ten of our top reads that are sure to scratch that #BookTok itch! Chances are you might have seen a few of these… Read More

Sophia’s Summer Shopping List

We’re kicking off our Summer of Sophia™ with a list of must-haves from author Sophia Money-Coutts herself! Did You Miss Me? is available now in Sainsbury’s, so why not pick up a copy along with this list of summer essentials? La Roche Posay Anthelios SPF 50 What is the point… Read More

How to Get Over Your First Love by Sophia Money-Coutts

We all know getting over someone is HARD, and nobody knows that like Nell Mason, the protagonist in Sophia Money-Coutts’ latest rom-com novel Did You Miss Me? That’s why Sophia has joined us to share her top tips to moving on, even when it feels like you never will. Read More

Carrie Hope Fletcher’s Top Five Meet-Cute Stories

We all love a lovely rom-com where the couple is thrown together in the most wonderful of ways. And in an exclusive piece for the HQ blog, Sunday Times bestselling author Carrie Hope Fletcher tells us about her top five meet-cute stories from some of her favourite novels. Read Carrie’s… Read More

If you like this Christmas movie we recommend…

Here at HQ Stories, we are OBSESSED with Christmas movies and we also LOVE books (funnily enough). We couldn’t resist the opportunity to pair them together to create the ultimate festive reading guide. Read on to find out what you should read next based on your favourite Christmas… Read More

Rebecca Raisin’s favourite things about Christmas

To celebrate the release of Rebecca Raisin’s new Christmas hilarious romance Flora’s Travelling Christmas Shop, we asked the author to create a list (as he’ll be checking it twice) of her favourite things about Christmas. Read on to feel the Christmas spirit. My… Read More

Katie Ginger’s five reasons why the perfect Christmas gift is always a book!

Not sure whether buying your family ANOTHER book is a good idea? Well here is the blog post you need to read. To celebrate the release of her new heartwarming Christmas romance The Perfect Christmas Gift, Katie Ginger shares her five reasons why the perfect Christmas… Read More

Summer reading recommendations from Sophia Money-Coutts!

To celebrate the upcoming publication of the heartwarming and hilarious new novel Did You Miss Me?, we asked author Sophia Money-Coutts to share with us her top three reading recommendations for this summer! Have you read any of these?! The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller A wonderfully written… Read More

Hot Days, Sleepless Nights

“Keep your bedroom at a cool temperature for a good night’s sleep,” is the advice I read most often in guides on how to sleep better. Around 18℃ is optimal. But what if you are in the middle of one of the UK’s often brief, but hellishly hot, summers? How… Read More

Mick Finlay: Six things I try to avoid when writing a novel

Today we publish the fourth book in Mick Finlay’s gripping Arrowood mystery series, Arrowood and the Meeting House Murders! To mark the occasion, we’ve asked Mick to tell us a little bit about his writing process. Here’s what Mick tries NOT to do when writing! 1. Telling people what… Read More