Books

14 June 2021

How to get your kids to eat healthily - by teaching them to cook

By Helen Burgess from Little Cooks Co YOU CAN cook tasty food is out now: https://collins.co.uk/products/9780008420987 Knowing how to feed ourselves is one of life’s most important skills. It’s as ...

14 June 2021

Writing a book with your friend by Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry, authors of The Family Tree

When we first decided to embark on this journey to transform our friendship into being co-authors and business partners, we had no idea what to expect. We were nervous we ...

14 June 2021

The humourless judge by Imran Mahmood, author of I Know What I Saw

Because I am a criminal barrister, when I watch court-room dramas on TV I can't help complaining to anyone in earshot about how WRONG they got stuff. Some stuff, of ...

14 June 2021

Nine things I'd like my readers to know about me by Cathy Lake

1. I’m an avid reader. I LOVE books and read a lot – paperbacks, hardbacks and on my Kindle. When I was a child, I read all the time, and ...

14 June 2021

Five ways to manage your first Father's Day without him

Grieving the loss of your father can make Father’s Day a harrowing experience and even though the build-up doesn’t seem to be as overwhelming as the flowers, happiness and chocolates ...

13 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Nicole Kornher-Stace

1. I'm actually a very private person so it's hard to imagine what people might want to know about me! I started writing and trying to publish professionally around age ...

10 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister

1. I speak 2.3 languages. Growing up in Malaysia, I spoke English with my family at home. My parents spoke Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) with each other. Among my wider ...

10 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Jo Clegg, author of The Summer Holiday

After I saw my first stand up gig aged 21, I didn’t sleep a wink, scrawling down ideas for jokes. Although that didn’t go anywhere for me, now that I ...

10 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Valerie Perrin

I’m totally passionate about car-boot sales and flea markets. I can travel many miles to track down antique china, lace, or other items that move me, that have a past. ...

10 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Annabel Abbs

I once swore at two policemen for 20 minutes straight, in the worst language you’ve ever heard … I was about to give birth in my car because I was ...

10 June 2021

Read an exclusive extract from C. J. Carey's new novel Widowland

Monday, 12th April 1953 A biting east wind lifted the flags on the Government buildings in a listless parody of celebration. All the way from Trafalgar Square and down Whitehall ...

10 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Eva Verde, author of Lives Like Mine

*I can’t drive and have often felt bit of a walking peculiarity for never wanting to learn. I’m an Essex girl these days, but a true Londoner at heart, and ...

8 June 2021

Seven of the biggest challenges doctors face today by Lesley Morrison

The biggest challenge that all of us, including doctors, face today is climate change. Unless we succeed in keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees in the next ten years, the ...

6 June 2021

Review: In Black and White by Alexandra Wilson

The justice system in the UK is broken, that we can probably all agree on. In Black and White is the account of a young, brave woman who decided that ...
6 June 2021

How podcasts made detectives of us all by Amy Suiter Clarke, author of Girl, 11

We’ve always been obsessed with crime – true crime podcasts have just made it easier than ever to consume ridiculous amounts of it. ‘Serial’ smashed podcast records with Sarah Koenig’s ...

4 June 2021

Seven things I’d like my readers to know about me by Donna Ashcroft

1. I wrote Summer in the Scottish Highlands during lockdown. At the same time my day job working for an online retailer multiplied and I struggled to keep up so ...

3 June 2021

Seven things I learned from writing Grown Ups by Marie Aubert

Sibling rivalry has no age limit. Grown Ups is about two sisters, Ida and Marthe, who are approaching forty and spend a few summer days together in their family cabin. ...

3 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Manjeet Mann, author of The Crossing

That’s right. I’m old enough to know better, but what can I say, the dark creeps me out! When my partner's away I sleep with the hall light on, which ...

3 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Efua Traore

My name ‘Efua’ means light – I absolutely thrive in warm, bright, sunshine-y places. I can’t stand long, grey winters. ‘I was built close to water’ – This is a ...

3 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Jamie O'Connell, author of Diving for Pearls

I once received a letter from Princess Diana. When I was six years old, a red royal helicopter flew over our school, and my teacher encouraged us to write a ...

2 June 2021

Review: Dead Ground by M. W. Craven

When Poe and Tilly are dragged into another case, they soon realise that nothing is as simple as they’d like it to be. Author of the fourth novel in the ...

2 June 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Dana Perry, author of Her Ocean Grave

-  https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/how-i-helped-write-the-best-tabloid-headline-ever/1960563/ I got so desperate for a haircut during lockdown that I asked my fifteen-year-old daughter to cut my hair and it was honestly the best haircut I’ve ever ...

1 June 2021

Check out these ten stunning images from Britain at War in Colour by Ian Carter

Colour photography has a unique ability to bring history to life. As we consider the Second World War soon fading from living memory, and conversely the many lessons we have ...

1 June 2021

NHS Key Worker finds the write way through the pandemic by Lisa Stewart

On the 23rd March 2020 the UK went into lockdown. That was my first day as service manager for NHS Lothian’s COVID-19 assessment centre. As cases of the virus began ...