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1. Magpie Cove is a fictional village on the north coast of Cornwall, down the way a bit from St Ives - it's a lot smaller and less touristy than ...

Acclaimed international photographer Waleed Shah’s intimate and revealing portraits are credited with kick starting a major mental health and body positivity movement in the Middle East. His series of portraits ...

Did you try that game couples played this past year while working from home and driving each other crazy? My husband and I did. It went something like this. Holding ...

To celebrate the release of her new book, Scandalous Alchemy, we asked author Katy Moran to let us in on seven things she'd like her readers to know about her! 1. I love ...

My book How to Mars was inspired by the crazy (and quite possibly fraudulent) Mars One project, which promised to send a couple dozen people on a one-way trip to ...

My Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series features a no-nonsense, kick-ass amateur sleuth who doesn’t like being told what she should or shouldn’t do as a woman. Trouble is, she lives ...

This week is Mental Health Awareness week in the UK… and whilst I love the fact we are shining a light on mental health, I truly do believe every day ...

As a child I was told to believe everything my teachers said about religion. As an adult I wanted proof. I did NOT believe in spiritualists or spiritualism. All nonsense. ...

When you become a mum, all your thinking and being goes into your children. They become the centre of your world and you pour your heart and soul into them. ...

For 20 years I was a TV drama writer for shows like EastEnders, all the while harbouring a desire to write crime novels. In 2015, my debut novel, the Whitstable ...

By Helen Burgess from Little Cooks Co YOU CAN cook tasty food is out now: https://collins.co.uk/products/9780008420987 Knowing how to feed ourselves is one of life’s most important skills. It’s as ...

When we first decided to embark on this journey to transform our friendship into being co-authors and business partners, we had no idea what to expect. We were nervous we ...

Because I am a criminal barrister, when I watch court-room dramas on TV I can't help complaining to anyone in earshot about how WRONG they got stuff. Some stuff, of ...

1. I’m an avid reader. I LOVE books and read a lot – paperbacks, hardbacks and on my Kindle. When I was a child, I read all the time, and ...

Grieving the loss of your father can make Father’s Day a harrowing experience and even though the build-up doesn’t seem to be as overwhelming as the flowers, happiness and chocolates ...

1. I'm actually a very private person so it's hard to imagine what people might want to know about me! I started writing and trying to publish professionally around age ...

1. I speak 2.3 languages. Growing up in Malaysia, I spoke English with my family at home. My parents spoke Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) with each other. Among my wider ...

After I saw my first stand up gig aged 21, I didn’t sleep a wink, scrawling down ideas for jokes. Although that didn’t go anywhere for me, now that I ...

I’m totally passionate about car-boot sales and flea markets. I can travel many miles to track down antique china, lace, or other items that move me, that have a past. ...

I once swore at two policemen for 20 minutes straight, in the worst language you’ve ever heard … I was about to give birth in my car because I was ...

Monday, 12th April 1953 A biting east wind lifted the flags on the Government buildings in a listless parody of celebration. All the way from Trafalgar Square and down Whitehall ...

*I can’t drive and have often felt bit of a walking peculiarity for never wanting to learn. I’m an Essex girl these days, but a true Londoner at heart, and ...

The biggest challenge that all of us, including doctors, face today is climate change. Unless we succeed in keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees in the next ten years, the ...

The justice system in the UK is broken, that we can probably all agree on. In Black and White is the account of a young, brave woman who decided that ...