By mind coach and TV presenter Anna Williamson 1- The days and weeks after giving birth are amongst the most surreal and emotionally challenging, take each day as it comes and remove any expectation from ...
1/ Gypsies don’t form ‘gangs’ as such – they have large families which are very closely knitted together, even if living in different parts of the country. Family is a ...
To celebrate the release of her new book All Day at the Movies- author Fiona Kidman tells us a bit more about the author behind the books. I was an ...
In a time where so many women are finding their voices – speaking up for themselves and those around them – it’s more important than ever to have strong, badass ...
Soups can be your best friend in the kitchen! Plant-based soups offer us the opportunity to nourish our selves with delicious, nutrient-dense, easy-to make and easily digestible meals that can ...
The hero and heroine fall in love whilst working with birds of prey in romantic comedy novel Little Teashop of Horrors, one of two books by Jane Lovering, both published by Choc Lit, shortlisted ...
More than 90 percent of eczema sufferers are sensitive to a range of artificial chemicals but did you know natural food chemicals also trigger eczema? Registered nutritionist, Karen Fischer, has ...
By Julia Kite When I read fiction, I like a story that tidies up all its loose ends. That is why, at first consideration, it seems strange that I am ...
I only like square-ended chips so when I’m out my friends give me their square-ended ones I give them my pointy-ended ones. My favourite crisps are folded-over ones. I used ...
When I meet people at parties – which, sadly, isn’t too often these days, because I have two small children and they are assassins of adult fun – we do ...
It is never easy being the second son, you see it in so many families. Always having to play ‘catch up’. Around the time that every one of his friends ...
In 1969, a twenty-one-year-old Hillary Rodham delivered the commencement speech on behalf of her class at Wellesley College. “I find myself in a familiar position,” she began, “that of reacting, ...
That summer I hunted the serial killer at night from my daughter’s playroom. For the most part I mimicked the bedtime routine of a normal person. Teeth brushed. Pajamas on. ...
As a woman living in a male dominated age Mary Tudor may be forgiven for submitting to her fate. After the death of her first husband, King Louis XII of ...
As the number of UK cults continue to rise, young people are more at risk than ever of being recruited, warns the author and alleged former Christian cult member, Rhys ...
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Sonja Bajic, illustrator and author of What My Girlfriends Told Me, shares her story about the first time she realised that women are more ...
In 2013 after a three-year battle through the Family Courts I finally secured residency of my youngest son ‘Junior’. The cost of my legal fees was extortionate, and in the final year I was forced ...
In my early twenties, I spent two years travelling and working my way around the world. It was an exciting, engaging and enthralling adventure that I will never forget. Travelling ...
Kate Bowler, a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, had a baby with her childhood sweetheart before she began to feel stabbing pains in her stomach. She lost two stone, ...
Next month marks the 61st anniversary of Ghana’s independence from colonial rule. On 6 March 1957, the former Gold Coast emerged from the shadow of the British Empire. But the ...
The 16th century was a patriarchal age, yet the stories of these five intriguing women coloured three quarters of the century. Linked by circumstances, they all had the disadvantage of ...
It’s really easy to think about writing a book. Whether you imagine yourself sitting in a quiet, comfortable place – pouring your heart and soul into a beautiful piece of ...
