Books

Learning and re-learning is the theme of my lockdown. Perhaps ‘remembering’ is a better word. Like finding lost moments I used to have in my life, it’s been a process ...

A Witness to Murder. published by Bookouture, is the third book in my historical murder mystery series. The heroine, and reluctant sleuth, Lady Eleanor Swift has been brought up abroad ...

Way back in January, my family and I raised a glass to 2020, a year that was meant to be truly outstanding. In 2020, my debut novel The Girl from ...

Author of Could It Be Insulin Resistance? (Hammersmith Books) Education is one of the most important things if you want to bring about a lifestyle change, as cutting out sugar ...

The Temple area of London, where generations of barristers have lived and worked, has survived the Plague, the Great Fire of London and the Blitz. But I doubt it had ...

Most people don’t realise that self-esteem is knocked back more by everyday events than by the big setbacks in life. For example, we can get used to being herded like ...

Audible is advertised on pretty much every YouTube video I click on these days, so I figured it was about time I tried it out along with my colleagues here ...

I was asked by Female First to share what I’ve been doing during the pandemic. Here are the main ways I’ve been spending my time: 1 – I’ve been hunting ...

Tears dropped onto my phone as his email message blurred before my eyes. John was dying. That’s what he’d written to tell me. He had end-stage kidney disease and he ...

In the midst of all this seemingly endless bad news, with gloomy economic forecasts, a climate emergency not to mention a global pandemic- how do we save ourselves from falling ...

You thought being stuck together might be a cutesy rom-com. Turns out, it’s a horror story. Deadly glares. Screaming. A shocking crime scene. Well, not really, but the kitchen looks ...

Quit for Covid - there’s never a bad time to stop smoking and quitting now has a double benefit. Smoking is a Covid-19 risk in itself because of the lung ...

1. I don’t know whether I’m doing it right either. My new book, Never Say No tells Hailey’ story of finding her feet in her late twenties, letting go of ...

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As the youngest female to own a collection of award-winning, culture-changing nightclubs in East London, Tava O’Halloran juggled a busy career, crippling failure, financial ruin, and bounced between both sides ...

Abigail Horne is the hugely successful founder of Authors & Co, a partnership publishing company specialising in helping people tell their story so they can leave behind a legacy – ...

I’ve always written stories. When I was wee I hand-made little comics and when I was at secondary school I wrote a weekly School Buzz column for my local paper. ...

I had just written, ‘Sex, drugs and rock and roll,’ when my wife popped her head round my study door and announced, ‘We’re in lockdown!’ This isn’t a usual line ...

By Suzanne Snow  For me, every time. Why is that? Firstly, they’re capable, resourceful people. Not only in carrying out their day jobs but able to turn their hands to ...

From how to deal with feedback to whether you should edit as you go along, here’s some advice that could bring you closer to seeing your name on a cover. ...

There are more farmhouse and artisan cheesemakers in Britain today than at any time since the 1930s. During wartime and up to 1954, the government ordered that milk could only ...

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Other than my immediate family, the people I have spent the most time with since March are fictional: characters in the books I write, characters in the television shows I ...

As lockdown restrictions ease and friends post pictures of themselves on social media, smiling in pubs and cafes or at the beach and picnicking in the park, I am still ...