Gas-lighting is a ‘repeat, systematic series of lies designed to make the victim doubt her reality.’ Any human relationship is fertile ground for gas-lighting but it’s such a pervasive form ...
I'm a dress historian, so I adore reading books that feature clothes, as well as writing books about clothes. If you are a fashion fan or vintage devotee you may ...
The idea for KEEP YOU SAFE was initially sparked by my own concerns re MMR vaccinations for my daughter as a baby. I have a mild congenital spine condition - a ...
My newest YA sci-fi novel, Invictus, follows the adventures of a crew of time traveling thieves, who steal antiquities from history and fence them on the futuristic black market. Of ...
As a child I lived in Nigeria briefly. I went to school and was shocked to see you could actually be caned on the hand for turning up late. Needless ...
The first reason has to be because life is very short... too short to hold back on something interesting but scary. If you want to do something... anything from having ...
Every person carries wounds, pains, memories, minor or major traumas and each and every one of us hold within ourselves the capacity to heal our own wounds Our wounds, our ...
The food we eat has a major impact on the range and severity of our menopausal symptoms. It’s fascinating to note that Asian women have a very different experience of ...
By Martin Cohen, author of Bounty of a Stolen Empire Art lovers among you will be familiar with the flashy (some might say fleshy) portrait of the Countess of Blessington ...
Most of us reading this blog have experienced the kind of meeting agony that gives meetings a bad name. when a group of people get together, and instead of building ...
My dad was my hero. He was only twelve years old when he left Germany in 1939 on the kindertransport to England and was the only member of his family ...
I love all books, but there’s no genre I enjoy more, and more consistently, than a historical narrative when it’s done well. When a particular piece of history is resurrected ...
Rinsed, the second standalone instalment in Gerry Rose’s Elliot Trilogy of thrillers, was published at the end of August by The Book Guild. A fast paced family saga of betrayal, ...
By Stephanie Nimmo, author of Was This in the Plan? published by Hashtag Press (£12.99, memoir, September 2017) My life has taken some pretty dramatic turns over the years. From ...
My father is Turkish and ‘Cem’ is a male name in Turkey. The Turks don’t have the letter J, so my mother Anglicised it. This has led to misunderstandings, for ...
As the first female bass player to go on and become a major rock star, Suzi Quatro is one of the biggest names in the music industry, cementing her status ...
In the top ten fashions after the fig leaves Eve adopted to hide her modesty in the Garden of Eden must come trousers. Women have been wearing them in the ...
My new book, The Wizards of Once, is my first new book series for 18 years, since I started writing How to Train Your Dragon. I was inspired by British ...
I qualified as an accountant. Despite wanting to be a writer from a very young age, I didn’t believe someone like me – just a girl from a small welsh ...
Leaving Lucy Pear is fiction, and as far as I know no wealthy Jewish teenager abandoned her newborn baby to a poor Irish Catholic woman on Cape Ann, Massachusetts in ...
