The book—about a group of friends left behind in Washington, DC, when their significant others go out on the campaign trail during a zany election—was inspired by my own experiences ...
On being asked to write a short piece on ‘A Day in the Life of Leigh Russell,’ I agreed without giving the question a second thought. After all, how difficult ...
I write crime fiction that packs a punch. I have two series - a Manchester police procedural introducing DS Kevin Coupland. Kevin is the wrong side of forty, overweight and ...
I’ve always enjoyed a good old action-packed dream and since starting this writing malarkey, I scribble a lot in my sleep too. It’s all gobbledygook, of course, but when I ...
The Soldier, the first in a new trilogy set in the Polity Universe, is out now from TOR. If you want to write SF you must have some understanding of ...
One day while working as a plainclothes police officer, my team and I chased a drug dealer who threw his stash into the sea. The tide was going out and ...
I was born in America but grew up in Canada. I was young when we moved, which meant lots of failed spelling tests (color vs. colour, check vs. cheque). Perhaps ...
I USED TO BE OBSESSED WITH BBC WAR CORRESPONDENT KATE ADIE I grew up watching her reporting from battle zones and was amazed at how she could remain so calm ...
This will take some filtering as I write. Not only because every day is so different in my life, but also because I seriously fit that much into my day, ...
Up to the age of twenty-one, the only literature I was interested in was ‘The Classics’. I avidly read the great novelists: George Eliot, DH Lawrence, Thomas Hardy. Crime fiction? ...
When I think about the time I spent writing and revising the stories in Back Talk, I think less of the years they consumed—15 or so, from first draft to ...
‘Be childlike and feminine at all times’. This was one piece of advice given to women in fifties Britain. At first glance it was a dull decade, squished between the ...
I’ve spent my life travelling around the world, working as a British diplomat. In my novels, I only write about the countries I’ve lived in. I hope my experience ...
I wrote my first ‘novel’ at 8. It consisted of handwritten pieces of paper stapled together into a book. It was a story about a deer fawn in the highlands ...
With the release of the new movie, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, based on the bestselling book, we’ve decided to check out ten additional novels set on ...
I’m a TV presenter and writer now, but I originally trained as a zoologist. I have a zoology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and my first job was collating data ...
How do you begin to divine the specific nature of ingredients when you’re shopping, since you can’t usually taste them? (Though, of course, if they’re offering, sample away!) Bring all ...
I’m a wandering spirit. I walked 5,500 miles across three continents – London to Moscow, Melbourne to Sydney and LA to New York. I stayed with families, new friends, in ...
I spent all my childhood summers in Wiltshire where my mum and dad had a tiny cottage, with no bathroom, no telephone and no TV. It was memories of those ...
Following the release of her debut novel, Joy Pearson shares the top 10 things that her readers should know about her: As an imaginative observant child, my confidence to write ...
I know how these things are supposed to go. I’m supposed to make you madly jealous of my life and ways by stating that I spring out of bed, refreshed ...
A recent survey released by Dr. Oetker, the nation’s favourite baking brand, proves that baking can lift the spirits. Two thirds (67%) of Britain’s amateur bakers agree it improves their ...
