Books

20 August 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Evie Grace

As a writer, I spend much of my time socially distanced and locked down at my laptop anyway, so when Covid-19 struck in March, life should have carried on as ...

Improvise! Use the Secrets of Improv to Achieve Extraordinary Results at Work

20 August 2020

Improv your career! How to act like an improviser to own the room

For most people, the idea of getting on-stage in front of an audience with the aim of making them laugh feels them with a deathly dread. Throw in the stipulation ...

20 August 2020

How I speny my lockdown by Anna Bell

When the pandemic hit and lockdown was imposed, I thought of the practicalities of how things would work with homeschooling and food shopping. I didn’t give any thought to my ...

20 August 2020

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Victoria Hislop

Every book I write… has a very specific genesis. All my novels so far have been “born” at a specific moment. I am visiting somewhere for the first time and ...

20 August 2020

Mums aren't allowed sick days by Claire Allan

I write this from my hospital bed. Which sounds way more dramatic than it really is. Nonetheless, amid a global pandemic I find myself in a hospital ward wearing fetching ...

20 August 2020

Top tips for writing a reimagining story by Jaime Lee Moyer

I’ve written two novels now – Brightfall (2019) and Divine Heretic (2020) – that take a story everyone knows, and tells that story not only a different way, but from ...

20 August 2020

Motherhood in fiction—how my life as a mom sneaks into my plots by Pamela Crane

My kids call me the Mental Mommy. We even made matching t-shirts to commemorate it. The nickname could have evolved because there are four of them and only one of ...

17 August 2020

How to turn your life around

Have you ever felt that your life isn’t what you want it to be? Turning it around isn’t about answers, it’s about questions. Questions that guide you towards changing the ...

14 August 2020

Seven things I'd like my readers to know about me by Marie Brennan

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11 August 2020

Clara Loveman shares her experience of diversity in fiction

One reason often cited for the persistence in diversity issues in fiction is that publishing houses are not yet hiring more non-white faces. I think there are two more potent ...

11 August 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Julie Lancaster

I was furloughed relatively early from my job as a library assistant, before I even knew what the term ‘furlough’ actually meant, and those first few weeks of lockdown were ...

10 August 2020

What I did in the pandemic by Debra Jo Immergut

Female First asked me to tell you what I’ve been doing in the pandemic. Here are four ways this American novelist has tried to distract herself from obsessive doom-scrolling and ...

10 August 2020

Why I set my thriller in Belfast by Rose McClelland

When you tell someone you are a writer, the first question they will ask is: “Are the books selling well? Does it make money?” With the release of my fourth ...

10 August 2020

Five tips for keeping safe online

Cybersecurity expert Geoff White shares his top 5 tips on how to keep safe online, based on his book Crime Dot Com (Reaktion Books, 10th August) https://www.waterstones.com/book/crime-dot-com/geoff-white/9781789142853 As coronavirus swept ...

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6 August 2020

Too Much and Never Enough review: Donald Trump eviscerated in Mary Trump's scathing family history

For the blindly loyal followers of the 45th President of the United States, Mary Trump's new book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man will likely ...

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