Books

My writing process is a bit of a mystery, even to me.  I have never been able to plot a novel out ahead of time. I started out writing literary ...

Organizations and, if we believe stereotypes, male bosses often hold the belief that people should leave their emotions at the door when they come to work. In working with countless ...

For a lot of us, lockdown was a massive shift. No more going into the office. Juggling meetings with childcare and home-schooling, being apart from friends and family… learning how ...

Celia Gaze... who went from NHS Director to putting bow ties on Llamas… Former NHS Director turned entrepreneur and author, Celia Gaze founded the multi award-winning Wellbeing Farm https://thewellbeingfarm.co.uk/ - ...

The 20% Rule is the latest book from mutli-award winning bestselling female author, Catherine Gladwyn. In a world where business books are largely dominated by men it’s refreshing to see ...

Three poems, one short story written, five paintings, two floribunda roses, twenty geranium, six nemesia, one blue agapantha, ten mixed nasturtium, two French lavender planted, fifty brambles cut back, one ...

Best friends since they met at university over thirty years ago, Kerry Fisher and Pat Sowa recently co-authored Take My Hand, the story of motherhood, grief and hope. In 2017, ...

1. I am partial to the 2003 FA Cup Final. I was 10, and I had crushes on the entire Arsenal starting 11. It was a big match for Southampton’s ...

If there is one thing we have all learnt in lockdown, it’s that we don’t need to go shopping. Certainly not for clothes. Let’s be honest - we don’t see ...

Before Covid-19, lockdown was a concept I’d associated with a fictional attack on the White House in an over-the-top Hollywood thriller. Now for a generation of global citizens the word ...

By Matthew Ross, author of Death of a Painter, Red Dog Press, April 2020 Have you ever had a lifelong ambition and when you finally achieve it, it’s nothing like ...

Fully engaged, ‘active’ listening is hard work for beginners. It requires first a strong desire to hear what the other person is saying. This requires you to be genuinely interested ...

By Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown, author of The Dreamer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Creative Unconscious, March 2020, Free Association Books, £14.99 The science of dreaming has not yet caught up with ...

author of My Perfect Sister, RedDoor Press As soon as I learned to read I began my career as a bookworm. I devoured books like others did packets of crisps ...

I’m often asked where I like to write, and over the years my reply has become almost apologetic, as though I really should offer a more interesting response. But the ...

Looking for a new read? Rather than indulge in the latest chick-lit or fantasy novel, why not pick up something that might just change your way of thinking? We have ...

Jane Austen famously wrote Mr. Darcy’s checklist of an accomplished woman in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. In Darcy’s eyes, a woman must paint tables, cover screens, net purses, ...

Have you ever asked yourself what music would complement the latest novel you are about to read? Well we asked author Lesley Pearse for her recommendations for the perfect soundtrack ...

My name is Suzy and I am a chocaholic. I have two or three mega-strong 70% hot chocolate drinks every day, plus a chocolate bars and biscuits. If I don’t ...

Kim Nash is Head of Publicity for Bookouture, now an author in her own right, part of a book club, sets up book events and has her own book blog. ...

Everyone’s memory is unreliable because we all see things differently: you might see the plum tree with its delicate white blossoms and the wind rustling the leaves on the red ...

Stay at home? Fantastic. You have a tickle in your throat? No problem to self-isolate. It’s what we authors do – sometimes for hours on end – so immersed in ...

While I have a few male detective favourites, my love of great female investigators goes back to my early years of reading crime fiction. I’ve always preferred Miss Marple to ...

Female First had an exclusive chat with author Holly Race during which she gave us an insight into how she came up her fantasy trilogy the first of which is ...