Lyme Disease: Medical myopia and the hidden global pandemic by Dr Bernard Raxlen and Allie Cashel, Hammersmith Books, £15.99, 31st July 2019 I grew up in a small town, about ...
So: to the marriage of true minds, impediments were admitted. Love was not love, and altered. Someone stopped counting the ways in which they loved. Love was once like a ...
If I were born again, I’d choose to be Italian. I lived in Rome for seven years as a child as my father worked there for the Commowealth War Graves ...
I was recently asked the question: how do I write difficult or educational topics into my books without lecturing, boring or—worse of all—discouraging children from reading. I admit it was ...
Author of Taming the Big Pharma Monster (Filament Publishing, May 2019, £14.99) Straight answers are not easy to get out of Big Pharma. Smoke and mirrors abound, as patients try ...
When I was little, I had a Tortoise called Bannister - after Roger Bannister, the man who ran the first sub-4-minute mile. One winter he went to hibernate and in ...
It’s the latest decluttering fad that promises to spark joy into our lives through a ‘sort and purge’ process. But, writes the bestselling novelist Ovidia Yu, the KonMari Method is ...
He and I met in French class at a college in the foothills of Northern California. I thought of them as velvet hills. They were golden in the sunshine, the ...
I do most of my research online, and it’s usually very targeted. It’s great for quick answers, and can lead further. However, it’s often the books I use for background ...
Deborah Lawrenson and Robert Rees reveal to Female First what it's like to write a book together when you are also husband and wife. Deborah: ‘I have to confess that ...
By Sheila Granger, author of No more diets! Believe in a healthier, better you. Many of the people my practitioners and I see have been on a journey through a ...
I lived in Italy for three years in my early twenties. I went there knowing no Italian at all, and I had to learn it quickly, to survive. I watched ...
I was 21 when I had an incident at an overcrowded train station in London. Before this, I had never been a big fan of crowded places, although after the ...
Over the last couple of years, I have dramatically changed my lifestyle and my health, losing almost six stone in the process! Living off high calorie processed food was making ...
Book subscriptions - like Rare Birds Book Club - are the most exciting thing to happen in the reading world since the advent of the printing press (we think so, ...
Here’s the thing, we are talking more about periods these days. There is something in the air shall we say. But there’s no doubt about the fact there is still ...
I live in a two hundred year old malthouse built on a site that’s even older. No ghosts though – at least not yet. When they stopped producing malt for ...
There's something incredibly exciting about mystery subscription services. Having something fresh and unique delivered to your door throughout the year makes it feel like Christmas straight through from January until December. ...
It’s a fairy tale about everyday bravery, putting two fingers up to a society that makes ridiculous demands on women and girls: the way we’re supposed to speak, look, behave ...
Sophie Ranald shares ten things about her to mark the release of her new book It's Not You It's Him. The inimitable Dorothy Parker once said, “I hate writing. I ...
For many people, Father’s Day is a celebratory occasion where they can shower their Dad with love, and show a little appreciation for all the help he has given over ...
