A Prompt From: Maggie O'Farrell
Beginnings are hard. The blizzard-white emptiness of the page in front of you, the empty document with the patiently waiting cursor: they can conspire to give you such awful vertigo...
meet Hazel
Best book you’ve read… don’t overthink it A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel. What’s a book you pretend to have read but have never finished? The Iliad (and the...
National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo. An acronym to either strike fear or send a surge of excitement through the heart of any creative writer. NaNoWriMo, or to give its full title ‘National Novel Writing...
Does Size Really Matter?
Rare Birds Books sets out to prove, once and for all, that it’s not the length of a book that counts… it’s what the author does with it.
Worth the wait?
Good things come to those who wait… We take a look at some of the most prolific Rare Birds of all time, and those who enjoy a more relaxed approach...
An Unexpected Point of View
Following an unfortunate ‘almost exchange’, Rare Birds Books asks the question: why settle for an unreliable narrator, when you could have an unusual one?