How would you go on if your home was taken from you? Your family? Your language?

It’s only after she falls apart and truly faces her own powerlessness that she finally meets herself, and finds a pack.

People started coming up to me after panels, telling me they “loved how unapologetic you are”. What exactly am I supposed to be apologising for?

The thing about myths is that they are always changing.

Malc’s Boy is an experimental novel in the vein of French autofiction with a Cumbrian setting.

It is a tale of madness, the destructiveness of grief, and the price you pay for the secrets you keep.

It is long past time for all the hidden women to be brought from the shadows into the light of their own stories.

The story was never meant to be gentle or sentimental—I felt there was room to interrogate its moral logic rather than simply reproduce it.

I don’t approach the basic act of storytelling differently when I’m writing about kissing than when I’m writing about swordfights, and I think it would be rather odd if I did.

Still, a few weeks ago someone asked me what advice I would give my pre- publication self and I realised that I wouldn’t do very much differently.

He was forced to flee to England for five years but now, Tony is back in town.

This is a sweeping family-saga that charts the decline of Hungarian nobility from the start of the twentieth century to the Hungarian National Uprising of 1956.

A gothic coming of age story on suppressed female desire in the early nineteen twenties and the controlling nature of old English boarding schools.

An electric look into the lengths adolesent girls will go to for the promise of a bright future despite the dangers of a world which is out to get them.

A bold retelling of the beloved fairytale where the wicked stepmother is a woman with the best intentions for her daughters, battling the daily challenges of being a widower in a time where marriage means respectability and social standing is a cruel currency.

A fabulously gripping, twisty and tender thriller wrapped around a love story, one that you'll want to fly through, yet savour.

Nothing is overdone or overwritten and the emotions that steadily grow from page one fill each chapter with an undercurrent that makes you want to keep reading the prose forever.

It is an exploration into the paradox that is the tragedy that you may never be more than you are, and yet you must always strive to become more than you ever will be. 

With 200 Monas I was promised an unhinged and outrageous (in the best way) and readers, Jan Saenz delivered on every single expectation!

2026 is definitely the year of perfectly plotted and beautifully written retellings of Gothic fiction.

It’s time to meet your next favourite (and murderous) heroine: Lalla Rook. You’re going to LOVE HER!