When I told people my debut novel, ‘A Proclivity To Prurience,’ was classed as ‘Erotica’, many called it porn – maybe in jest, maybe not – but why? Many films ...
The house is quiet, it is just me and the two dogs. These days even the dogs stay asleep but Crystal the Border Collie still wags the tail before digging ...
Alysa finds more on her longed-for tropical vacation than she’d ever dreamed. Alysa has always wanted to go on a tropical vacation to Bora Bora, and she finally sees it ...
Kate Griffin selects some notably nasty female protagonists Game of Thrones is back for a seventh season this July and I’ll be there in front of the TV. ‘Thrones’ is ...
Behind every happy leader there is a strong and supportive partner who provides the space and anchors his or her other half. However, the quality of the relationship can be ...
With many of us now leaving university under appreciable debt, entering an employment environment in which the days of the ‘job for life’ are over, and with our retirement age ...
Six authors, one book, three's a charm. I began writing romance for two reasons. (1) I always have to have a happy ending and (2) my mind can take me ...
In The Importance of Being Me we follow Courtney who has just been left by her husband and who is full of self-loathing that she married the wrong man and ...
I'm not a 'natural' writer. I know others whose prose seems to flow from them without effort, but I have to think about what I want to write at great ...
I’ve always loved losing myself in stories from another time, a different world. As a child, my favourite books were those set in the past; the only thing that’s changed ...
Carol Drinkwater’s new novel, The Lost Girl, is out now. It is set mostly in France, including Paris. Carol has shared her top tips for sightseeing in Paris this summer. ...
How would you describe your book and what happens in it? With fascism and the two world wars in the background, The Last Son’s Secret draws a mural of the ...
There’s something quintessentially British about the sight of brightly painted beach huts jostling together on the shore. Author Lucy Clarke has grown up spending her summers in her family beach ...
Numismatics or Coin Collecting is a fulfilling hobby that can extend from one denomination to a whole Monarch, or simply a collection of Beatrix Potter 50p’s. There are hundreds of ...
Five o’clock in the morning, I wake up, jump out of bed, get dressed according to the weather, then go for a five or six kilometre run in the woods. ...
Jane Corry is a Sunday-Times best-selling author, published by Penguin. She lives in the south west with her second husband and their dog. Her three grown up children are always ...
To celebrate the release of her new book The Summer of Impossible Things, Rowan Coleman tells us a bit more about the author behind the books. I'm dyslexic. It's tricky, ...
My birthday is on 24th January. On that date in 1984, Ted Bundy, one of America’s worst serial killers, was executed. That’s a complete coincidence. It’s not like I’ve got ...
Tessa Broad tried for years for children; she suffered the indignities of unsympathetic and callous doctors, public humiliation and the constant questions about the state of her fertility. This is ...
Fern Britton's new book The Postcard comes out on paperback today, so we caught up with her to talk about her inspiration behind the story and why Cornwall is so ...
It was Warren Buffet who said “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” This ...
