Zoe Brooks Poet & Writer

I am a historian by training and I use history to give a reality to my books. I deliberately don’t fix the books in a specific time or plac...

When I started to write novels I was encouraged to do so by a close friend. And not just any friend: Hannah Kodicek was one of the best st...

The illustrations for my poetry book  Fool’s Paradise  are prints by my friend and mentor Hannah Kodicek. Hannah produced a whole s...

One of the things I love about writing is the way solving logistical problems in a novel can open up creative opportunities. The under...

For the last two days I have been working on the third draft of my novel  Mother of Wolves  It’s an alternative history novel. The a...

It’s taken me several years to bite the bullet and seriously consider putting my writing back in to the public arena. When I was younger I...

When I was younger (in my teens and 20’s) I used to write, a lot. I didn’t just write: I was published in poetry anthologies and magazines...