Who writes what

The writers behind Escape Into Books

Four bylines, four beats. These are the pen names our small team writes under — each one owns a patch of the site, so you always know who is covering what. Every article carries the byline of the writer whose beat it falls on.

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Editor — the daily news desk

Book Lord

Book Lord runs the desk at Escape Into Books - the daily headlines, the reading lists, and every story that does not land squarely on somebody else's beat. He has opinions about series reading order and will share them unprompted.

Screen adaptations

Margo Vance

Margo covers the ever-blurring line between the page and the screen - casting calls, first-look trailers, and the adaptations turning our favourite books into must-watch TV and film. If it started as a novel and ended up on a screen, she is already three episodes deep.

Fantasy, sci-fi and the big franchises

Theo Marsh

Theo lives in imagined worlds - Middle-earth, Westeros, Hogwarts and beyond. He tracks the franchises, feuds and release-date rumours that keep fantasy and sci-fi fans refreshing their feeds, with a soft spot for a doorstopper nobody asked to make shorter.

Publishing, book bans and author news

Nadia Iqbal

Nadia follows the business and politics of books - the deals and the drama, banned-book battles, publishing shake-ups and the authors making headlines for what they write and what they say. She reads the fine print so you do not have to.