I’ve been an antique collector and occasional dealer for around sixty years, and my new book Random Treasure: Antiques, Auctions and Alchemy is full of stories about great finds made ...
Upon the release of his debut book, Knowledge: The Root of All Happiness, M. A. Risso shares his Top 10 Tips for Living a Happier Life: Many of our problems ...
Written by Carol Pollard When I first held Lizzie in my arms at the maternity unit I knew that I would love her with all my heart. Throughout the pregnancy, ...
Back with their brand new single, Icelandic synth-pop duo East Of My Youth are hoping to take the world by storm with their unique sound and brilliant talent. We got ...
I speak Nepali, which has a beautiful, musical quality and is rippled with phrases of onomonopia such as “rungi chungi” (colorful), “jealy mealy” (bright and shiny) and “walk-walk lagio” (feeling ...
Did you know that a year’s worth of lunch breaks equates to almost 6 extra weeks of annual leave? This is what Laura Archer, author of Gone for Lunch: 52 ...
by author of For the Love of Grace and The Second Son, Andy Blackman I have been asked this many times and it remains a hard question to answer from ...
Unlike a broken bone or headache, unfortunately there isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ treatment for anxiety. As an author and award winning mental health blogger, sadly I know that ...
I hadn’t written any fiction since my schooldays, when English Composition was my favourite homework. I couldn’t wait to get home to get started on it! Then five or six ...
Author of “Sleeping with the Rabbits” A moving, true-life story of an escape from domestic abuse My first love was art. As soon as I could hold a pencil I drew ...
Jacqueline feels privileged to be able to write full time, so she makes the most of it. Her mornings are emails and social media, afternoons are editing and outlining and ...
‘Anyone for a mezcal?’ ‘A what? You mean the one with the worm?’ The smoke... the worm... the very name. My mum thought I was writing a book about drugs. ...
Upon the release of her new book- Creaky Limericks- Hermione Ainley tells us a bit about the woman behind the books. I am a very good Alzheimer carer. Don’t give ...
I loved reading Enid Blyton as a child – but as a teenager really got into Stephen King and James Herbert. It wasn’t until my late 20s that I began ...
The Country Escape is a romantic romp in which feathers are ruffled when a dotcom billionaire buys a historic Herefordshire estate and sets about trying to evict an animal sanctuary ...
I’m a proud exponent of the rural romp in all its rolling-in-the-hay, weeping-into-the-dog’s-neck candour. From Elizabeth Bennet clapping eyes on Pemberley, through Mellors brooding at Lady Chatterley from the potting ...
Cornwall’s always been one of my favourite places, even before Poldark took his top off and picked up a scythe. I fell in love with the wild and wonderful county ...
Reading is one of my great loves. Like all writers, I read a lot. Reading is a source of ideas and inspiration, a “standing on the shoulders of giants” you ...
I love fashion. When I was a child, my older sister and I would spend hours waltzing around in fantastic old evening gowns with sequins and fishtails that an actress ...
I’m a literary translator from Chinese. Give me a novel or a story, an essay or a poem, and I’ll turn it into English. I’ve been doing it for twenty ...
I couldn’t read until I was nine. The first four years of my school life were spent happily gazing out of windows or dreamily listening to conversations happening in the ...
