Books

Female First asked me to tell you what I’ve been doing in the pandemic. Here are four ways this American novelist has tried to distract herself from obsessive doom-scrolling and ...

When you tell someone you are a writer, the first question they will ask is: “Are the books selling well? Does it make money?” With the release of my fourth ...

Cybersecurity expert Geoff White shares his top 5 tips on how to keep safe online, based on his book Crime Dot Com (Reaktion Books, 10th August) https://www.waterstones.com/book/crime-dot-com/geoff-white/9781789142853 As coronavirus swept ...

For the blindly loyal followers of the 45th President of the United States, Mary Trump's new book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man will likely ...

I am a morning person, at six-thirty every day I leap out of bed, raring to go. I wish. In fact, I only get up at that time because a) ...

By Serge Beddington-Behrens Ph.D Author of Gateways to the Soul: Inner work for the outer world by Serge Beddington-Behrens, published by Inner Traditions, is available online and in all good ...

‘Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.’ Dalai Lama With fear and loss and huge uncertainty all around us, it’s difficult to think that anything particularly positive has come ...

I confess that I’m one of those people … one of the ones who loved ‘lockdown’. Somehow, in recent years, my life as a working and writing mother-of-three spiraled completely ...

author of The Tears of Monterini, RedDoor Press, 6th August 2020 Writing can be a lonely past time. Hours spent at a desk immersed in one’s head; inventing, thinking, watching ...

For me, never more so than now, it’s about the table. My thoughts are never far away from food, what I’d like to be eating and where. During lockdown, this ...

From the Covid-19 pandemic to the wave of economic loss, personal loneliness, isolation, and deep uncertainty about what’s in store, this is a time when even the toughest of us ...

The Journals of a Victorian Traveller by Martin Laurie contains the transcribed and edited journals of his ancestor, Julia Biddulph, who travelled the world with her husband during the last ...

When you were born you arrived with what Buddhists call ‘the original face’. The pure version of you. A blank slate, ready to be imprinted on. You were 100% you. ...

We need to examine the spells that hypnotize us and break them when they hinder us. Spells are words, deeds and judgements that go unquestioned, undigested and unchallenged. It could ...

By Sid Madge, author of the ‘Meee in a Minute’ series of books During Covid -19, if we are lucky, we have been able to stay home, reconnect with family ...

I’ve only been writing for four years. Before that, although I worked in and enjoyed theatre, I’d never once wanted to write anything for it. I had seen a not ...

By the author of the Dylan Series – Awakening of Spies (June 2020) and Families of Spies (July 30 2020) http://www.brianlanders.co.uk/ Everyone has a novel inside them. To transfer that ...

Like most people, I met the advent of the year 2020 with a particular sense of excitement and anticipation of renewal. There’s something about the turn of a decade that ...

The most surprising thing about lockdown was how little my life changed as a result of it. A year ago, my husband and I left our hectic lives – and ...

*I'm a former pediatric emergency medicine physician *I've met a serial killer *I walked away from two hard landings in helicopters ...

On the whole, my lockdown experience has been positive. This isn’t something I take for granted. I know how lucky I am to be able to say this. I live ...

Being at home has got me thinking. With my noise cancelling headphones permanently switched on to avoid the loud meetings and telephone calls about the house, I have found myself ...

I spent much of my lockdown in the company of an alien that invaded my body, and made me as chubby as the fluffy fledgling birds nibbling the fat balls ...

While nothing is back to normal as we knew it, the question of how we have spent our lockdown is a daunting one for many. There’s a sudden realization that ...