In this episode Anna and Sam talk to Kiley Dunbar. Kiley reads from her novel, The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday and we discuss her writing and the power of romantic fiction. 

Kiley Dunbar had published 6 contemporary romantic comedies with her publisher Hera Canelo. She is Scottish and lives in the North of England with her partner and two children. Her debut, One Summer’s Night, was nominated for the Joan Hessayon Award for New Writing, and its sequel, One Winter’s Night, was shortlisted for the RNA’s Romantic Comedy Novel Award 2021. Kiley is a senior lecturer at the Manchester Writing School where she uses her real name Dr Kirsty Bunting and teachers courses on genre fiction and writing about relationships.