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As a child, the sea drew me in with its amazing creatures and myths. When I held a shell up to my ear, I truly believed the ocean was speaking ...

Martin Roberts is one of the UK’s most respected property, travel and lifestyle TV presenters and journalists. Away from television, Martin Roberts is also an established children’s book author and runs ...

Are women prone to empathising more deeply and naturally, or is it a lifetime of social ‘training’ that has led women to generally be more pro social as a natural ...

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By Valerie A. Campbell, enhanced relationships expert and author. It was from the stillness of meditation that I received the message. It was a profound message and it was clear. ...

Many people have taken up new hobbies to fill their time since lockdown first started in March – and one hobby that’s been creating a real buzz this year is ...

1) I'd rather be reading. Few things, besides my family, interest me more than a good book. I read a book once about a lifelong reader who said he took books to ...

Greta Garbo, in the film Grand Hotel, famously said: ‘I want to be alone!’ That line has never been so pertinent to me as during lockdown. I realise that for ...

I did not spend my lockdown writing for hours, crafting a literary masterpiece or for that matter even a couple thousand words of my work in progress. Actually, I’m not ...

As a writer I’m familiar with spending long periods in isolation in confined spaces. But after a few months of lockdown even that has proved to be challenging for even ...

By Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia One of the most common questions authors are asked is where the inspiration for their stories comes from. Depending on the story – the answer may ...

I am a huge ABBA fan. Mama Mia! How could you not love ABBA? If you haven’t listened to them, why not Take a Chance on Them? Do I really ...

1. I fell in love with India. From the moment I read Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras during my first year in college, I knew India would be a big part of ...

By Jane Macpherson, yoga teacher (IYA 500 hours) and yoga therapist who has been helping her clients embrace change for more than 15 years. www.janemacphersonyoga.co.uk Thank goodness for yoga during ...

THE LOOK OF COMPLETE ASTONISHMENT on the child’s face I gave my first ever personalised book to was enough to convince me that personalised books are 100% the way forward ...

2020 was going to be such a big year for my family after a particularly turbulent 2019 and we had so much to look forward to. My partner’s 50th birthday ...

I will never, ever be able to make an elevator pitch – the ones where you pitch a fabulous idea in a lift to some Hollywood mogul as I am ...

Elaine Everest is the author of bestselling saga series including the Woolworths Girls and Teashops Girls. Here, she rounds up six things you probably didn’t know about the waitresses – ...

It’s been a very strange and disturbing year one way or another with the terrible Corona pandemic sweeping across the world but I’ve been luckier than some because I work ...

1. I’m an introvert. This may not be a surprise, as I think many of us writers are, but I tend to think of myself as quiet and shy (even ...

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March sees me writing about unbelievably brave women who flew Spitfires for the Air Transport Auxiliary service during World War Two. Those Atta girls were up there at 30,000 feet ...

It was only when I was pregnant with my daughter that I first became truly involved with the world of online influencers. Of course, I knew they existed before that, ...

The online parenting forum is 20 years old this year, so what do you need to know before venturing on the site? Recognition Act, gender-critical women have formed grassroots organisations ...