Children’s fiction: Spooky stories, family fantasies, emotional monsters and a friendless Megalosaurus
Olivia Laing: ‘I’m interested in fluidity, complexity, ambivalence, and that’s true politically and socially too’
Author Kevin Smith: ‘Whenever I leave the North I do feel a pull – a hankering for that coded familiarity’
Holly Cairns on her struggles with the Dáil commute and childcare: ‘It’s important not to sugar-coat it. It is difficult’