My physical home is London, but my spiritual home is Cape Town, South Africa. I love London for its diversity, history, arts and my friends, but I crave Cape Town ...
THE GIFT WHICH KEEPS ON GIVING. There is a group of islands to the North of Scotland. It is separated from the mainland by a very spikey, spoilt brat of ...
No matter how far you’ve travelled down the wrong road, it’s never too late to turn your life around, writes James Carré-Rice, whose remarkable transformation from career criminal to bestselling ...
I moved to London in 1997 to make my fortune. I was absolutely determined to make this happen, but at the time it seemed almost impossible. I had nothing but ...
When I first heard the term “domestic thriller,” I thought it was in contrast to something like an international thriller. Instead, it’s intended to capture dark stories that unfold close ...
Even if you have heard about mindfulness before you may still wonder what it is and exactly how it can benefit you. ‘Mindfulness’ was first introduced to the West in ...
My mother is a writer, too… She achieved her first publishing deal at 60! She writes beautiful love stories about romance in the over fifties. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey Hair!’ ...
I’m plagued with doubt about my ability to write because of being repeatedly told my grammar and punctuation were poor whilst at school. I actually cried when my editor said ...
Not so long ago, fame was earned through hard work and talent. Today, many celebrities are created by a 24/7 media hungry for ratings and happy to promote anyone who ...
Following the release of The Spain Quiz, a new cultural quiz book about all things Spain, author Ruta Czina shares the 10 fun facts that you should know about Spain: ...
I’ve read thousands of books over my lifetime most of which I’ve instantly forgotten because I have a terminal case of goldfish brain when it comes to remembering titles. The ...
I was born and brought up in a small village in Chernobyl region, where there is nothing but endless forest and endless railway tracks. There is absolutely nothing to do ...
Set against the backdrops of London and Thailand, Surrogacy: Our Family’s Journey is my first book and centres on our family’s intense, at times frustrating, and eternally-cherished adventure that led ...
Upon the release of her second crime thriller, The Promise, Sally Jenkins shares her Top 10 Tips for writing a gripping thriller: Make the villain believable by giving them a ...
I’m a pole dance teacher. I started learning pole dance/fitness about ten years ago and fell in love with it after my first lesson. I come from a professional dance ...
It’s freezing outside, so why do you still feel like jumping into an ice cold swimming pool? It’s estimated that at any one time in the UK, 13 million women are ...
January is almost over and for the majority (a whopping 80%) of us, new year’s resolutions have already fallen by the wayside. With this in mind, what are you going to do to ...
Upon the release of Passport to Fame: The Diana Dors Story, author Huw Prall shares the top 10 things that you should know about Diana: “I’m the kind of girl ...
Following the release of her debut novel, Clarice, Imogen Radwan shares the top 10 things that her readers should know about her: I’m 21 and I live in Brighton, where ...
If you’d like to find out more, read Patricia Fara’s A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Out now and only £18.99 from Oxford ...
by Susan Starkey author of Life After Death Beyond Doubt What happens to us when we die? Many people have their own individual theories; different faiths have different beliefs. The ...
Right now, there are more than 2 million entrepreneurs actively engaged in starting a business in the UK. Sadly, though, many of their ventures will never get off the ground. ...
Following the publication of In Search of Urchins, Annie Watson, shares the 10 things that her readers should know about her: I live in a small cabin on a holiday ...
