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 ...
We’ve always been obsessed with crime – true crime podcasts have just made it easier than ever to consume ridiculous amounts of it. ‘Serial’ smashed podcast records with Sarah Koenig’s ...
1. I wrote Summer in the Scottish Highlands during lockdown. At the same time my day job working for an online retailer multiplied and I struggled to keep up so ...
Sibling rivalry has no age limit. Grown Ups is about two sisters, Ida and Marthe, who are approaching forty and spend a few summer days together in their family cabin. ...
That’s right. I’m old enough to know better, but what can I say, the dark creeps me out! When my partner's away I sleep with the hall light on, which ...
My name ‘Efua’ means light – I absolutely thrive in warm, bright, sunshine-y places. I can’t stand long, grey winters. ‘I was built close to water’ – This is a ...
I once received a letter from Princess Diana. When I was six years old, a red royal helicopter flew over our school, and my teacher encouraged us to write a ...
When Poe and Tilly are dragged into another case, they soon realise that nothing is as simple as they’d like it to be. Author of the fourth novel in the ...
- https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/how-i-helped-write-the-best-tabloid-headline-ever/1960563/ I got so desperate for a haircut during lockdown that I asked my fifteen-year-old daughter to cut my hair and it was honestly the best haircut I’ve ever ...
Colour photography has a unique ability to bring history to life. As we consider the Second World War soon fading from living memory, and conversely the many lessons we have ...
On the 23rd March 2020 the UK went into lockdown. That was my first day as service manager for NHS Lothian’s COVID-19 assessment centre. As cases of the virus began ...
1) Lockdowns have been challenging for us all, but the enforced restrictions have given me the opportunity to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: rework ...
Sometimes it feels like modern life has been designed to distract us from ourselves. In our always-on, 24/7 world, there’s so much to look at, to watch and scroll through. ...
If you have been laid off in lockdown and are considering starting your own business – it can feel like you need to take a huge leap of faith. Frederike ...
My favourite definition of love is also the simplest. “The gauging and supply of another’s needs.” Apply that to any relationship and you have the secret of what will make ...
Can men write female characters? I think so. I hope so. When I created DI Shanti Joyce, the sassy, sexy single-mum protagonist of my new Mindful Detective series, I genuinely ...
Genevieve Gornichec is a new author and has recently released her debut novel, The Witch’s Heart. The book follows Angrboda, a witch who has just escaped her third burning. After ...
My favourite definition of love is also the simplest. “The gauging and supply of another’s needs.” Apply that to any relationship and you have the secret of what will make ...
She has lived a life less ordinary alongside her long-time partner Ricky Gervais, but Jane Fallon is very much a star in her own right. After her latest novel became ...
- Catherine Yaffe is a full-time writer of crime novels, based in the North of England. The Web They Wove is Catherine’s second novel and continues the theme of questioning ...
