Writing, like most things in life that bestow kudos, implies a skill and a gravitas that puts its protagonists into a category above the every day. Journalism, more now than ever, ...
By Leading Children’s Cookery Author Annabel Karmel As parents we want to ensure that our children are fuelled with the right foods and nutrients needed for their development and long-term health. We try to do our best, but sometimes hectic schedules and ...
I used to work as A TEFL teacher which was extremely enjoyable and I got to meet lots of interesting people ranging from German Burns surgeons to umpteen Japanese students ...
Even though being an author has always been my ultimate goal, I started making a name for myself as a book blogger first. Catching hold of the publishing life isn’t ...
Mindfulness is a very ‘in’ word these days. You can get books on the more serious, mindfulness and coping with depression - to the lighter, mindfulness and colouring, eating, walking ...
First question to ask yourself. Why are writing Dual Perspective? Would we need to hear Hansel and Gretal tell their individual stories? Probably not, they are on the same journey, ...
How often did you agree to do something that you later regretted? Said ‘yes’ when you really wanted to say ‘no’? We are social beings and so our mind can ...
If watching twenty-two men kick a ball round a field is not your thing but your Other Half is glued to #Russia2018, there’s plenty you can do to create your ...
Elizabeth married Sir Peniston Lamb MP in 1769 for his money. He inherited £1 million – worth about £125 million today - from his father, a get-rich-quick lawyer, the year ...
The inspiration for Tubing came after I saw two people who I thought were strangers touching each other up on a tube train carriage in rush hour. When they got ...
In February 1943, at a critical time in the Second World War, 68-year-old Prime Minister Winston Churchill was stricken with life-threatening pneumonia. My mother Doris Miles was chosen by Churchill's ...
I organized this list in order of “Most Clearly Time Travel” to “Really? Are You Sure This is Time Travel?” because I believe there’s more than one mode of transportation ...
If I’d known that not being able to have the child I so desperately wanted was grief my life might have been different. But I didn’t, so after six unsuccessful ...
The Barcelona Sketchbook evolved from looking at the city’s amazingly eclectic architecture — from Gothic to Modernism to the latest contemporary styles. Overall, Barcelona has been completely restored and revitalised since it was awarded ...
The most convincing ghost stories are the ones that come from a genuine place of fear in the author. What scares you – is it the good old-fashioned misty figure ...
My ninth novel is published this week. As usual, I will be racing around on P-Day, doing the million-and-one things you do as a terrified-yet-excited author watching your brand new ...
When it comes to changing unwanted habits, consider whether you associate being kind to yourself with making choices you’ll be happy you made in a week’s or a month’s time. ...
There was never a time when I didn’t have my sister in my life although she, being older, had four blissful years of peace before having to share her world ...
I’ve always been fascinated with stories. But my family struggled financially, and we didn't have a computer let alone money for books. I spent many days scouring playgrounds for cans ...
For so long I feared the word fat and would often opt for anything that said fat free. Since studying nutrition I’ve learnt the true meaning and purpose of fat, ...
The Poison Bed is very dark, full of twisty intrigue, murder and lies, set against the backdrop of the Jacobean court with all its ambition and glamour. Told from the ...
