Books

29 April 2021

Family Life in the Narnia Stories by Katherine Langrish, author of From Spare Oom and War Drobe

Katherine Langrish, the award-winning author of children’s fantasy books, fell in love with the world of Narnia as a child. In her new memoir she explores how re-reading each of ...

29 April 2021

Read chapter one from Heidi Swain's new book A Taste of Home

The sun had long since set over the Italian horizon before the last of the mourners finally headed back to their homes, leaving behind a mountain of food and a ...

29 April 2021

Why it's important not to wean your baby before they are ready by Charlotte Stirling-Reed

When it comes to weaning, many parents are often concerned about WHEN to offer their baby solid foods. Should it be 6 months on the dot? or 4 months? Or ...

29 April 2021

Top tips for practising yoga with your family by Dr Kiki Morriss

I wrote Nurturing Your Family With Yoga to show you how family yoga can play a key role in bringing peace, happiness and harmony to your home. Parents often ask ...
29 April 2021

Top tips for nailing interviews and landing the job of your dreams by Karen Macphee

Business coach and recruitment expert Karen Macphee shares her tips for nailing interviews and landing the job of your dreams in the competitive Covid-era employment market. In March last year ...

29 April 2021

A day in the life of Kristin Harmel, author of The Book of Lost Names

It’s a Monday morning, and my internal alarm goes off right on schedule, a few minutes before 6 a.m. Before last March, my weekdays had a predictable order to them. ...

29 April 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne

1. I wrote Ariadne as a New Year’s Resolution. I came up with the idea for the novel on holiday in France in the summer of 2018, but that September ...

28 April 2021

Jack Monroe's top tips for easy entertaining at home

After almost a year of on-again, off-again, will-they-happen or won’t-they social engagements written into diaries and onto calendars with the most precarious of pencil strokes, I find myself bewilderingly thrust ...

28 April 2021

How a happy gut can lead to a happy mind by Amanda Hamilton, author of The Gut Plan Diet

2020 served as a reminder to look after our health and think carefully about how what we put into our bodies can affect what we get out, physically and mentally. ...

28 April 2021

Seven things I’d like my readers to know about me by Kristen Zimmer, author of When Sparks Fly

-  If you were flying easily and enjoying yourself then it could mean you are finally on top of something- a workload or situation that has been a burden on ...

27 April 2021

Three simple tips for boosting your wellbeing by Joe Hilton

I want to start by telling you a bit about ‘Joe Bloggs’, well in a nutshell, this stands for ‘typical or everyday’ person, and that’s exactly who I see myself ...

27 April 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Emma Jameson

My first bestseller came to me in a dream. I’ve always been a writer. The first “book” I wrote, which consisted of two sheets of ruled notebook paper, was about ...

27 April 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by PJ Manney

I’m dyslexic and dysgraphic. I was told that whatever I did in life, the last thing I should do is write. But I can tell stories. Turns out dyslexics and ...

27 April 2021

Glass Half-Broken: The Stalled Workplace Revolution by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

From the pay gap to the opportunity gap, gender inequality in the workplace has been a stubbornly difficult problem to solve. This is partly because the underlying causes are often ...

26 April 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Madeline Dewhurst

Before I knew how to read and write I wanted to be a storyteller. I can remember sitting on the mat in nursery school telling stories to the other kids. ...

24 April 2021

Lockdown in La Serenissima by Philip Gwynne Jones, author of The Venetian Legacy

I was well suited to lockdown. I think being fundamentally lazy helped. But then there were just three of us - myself, my wife Caroline and Mimi the cat (who ...

24 April 2021

Seven misconceptions about witchcraft by Kelly-Ann Maddox, author of Rebel Witch

As a practicing witch for two decades, I now offer mentoring and online resources to empower other witches and answer their questions. As you can imagine, some of the queries ...

24 April 2021

Seven things you need to know about the pelvic floor by Kim Vopni

Closing off the base of our pelvis is a group of muscles called The Pelvic Floor. There are three layers of muscles and they have some very important roles in ...

24 April 2021

Review: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

The Lost Apothecary is a book shrouded in mystery; with excerpts from 1791 and the present day, debut author Sarah Penner has definitely woven an infinitely unique tale. Penner’s debut ...

22 April 2021

Seven reasons why I wanted to write about my journey to Judaism by Tetiana Michaels

-  Tetiana Michaels was born in 1986. She grew up in a part of Western Ukraine known as Bukovyna, in a city called Chernivtsi, historically predominately Jewish. She received Master’s ...

22 April 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Fíona Scarlett, author of Boys Don’t Cry

-  Boys Don’t Cry by Fíona Scarlett is published by Faber & Faber in April £12.99 hardback / £7.99 ebook I'm here because of a dream. I spent nearly 15 years ...

21 April 2021

The dos and don'ts if you are divorcing a narcissist by Dr Supriya McKenna and Karin Walker

Divorce is hard - really hard. But if you are left reeling by the heartless behaviour of your ex, who seems to wish to annihilate you on every level, you could ...
21 April 2021

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Ruth Kirby-Smith

1. Reading is like breathing to me – it is beyond a passion. My taste is wide but whatever genre I read I love to learn something new about a ...

21 April 2021

Seven reasons to batch cook by Niki Webster, author of Rebel Recipes

It’s no secret that batch-cooking gained its notoriety due to its multiple and vast benefits such as saving time, effort and food waste but is normally attributed to more of ...