To celebrate the release of her new book A Touch Of Frost- we caught up with L.A. Kennedt for a quick Q and A. L.A. Kennedy is a Canadian-born writer, ...
I'm such a picky eater that I've never even tried baked beans, avocado or tuna fish. I also have a genuine and life-threatening mustard allergy so I am not a ...
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, featuring the magical boarding school of Hogwarts, didn’t just become the bestselling children’s books of all time. They had a rather interesting side effect. The ...
“Are you twins?” It’s a question my sister Heather and I have heard at least a million times. There was a time when that question made us roll our eyes, ...
When I was younger, I spent most evenings after school at Tae Kwon Do class. Although I learned how to ‘fight’, Tae Kwon Do is more about respect, self-defense and ...
This was the first Jill Mansell book I ever read, in my early twenties, and I instantly wanted to hang out with the characters. I was genuinely sad to leave ...
Lola Åkerström, author of LAGOM: The Swedish Secret of Living Well, explores how we can reduce stress in our lives with a lagom mindset. The newest Scandinavian trend to hit ...
I gave my tall heels a rub with their shoe bag before I stepped into them. Maybe the only thing Elisabeth Teerlinc had in common with Judith Rashleigh was that ...
It’s a universal relationship. Everyone has been either a parent, or a child, or both. As storytellers we try to create those moments where a reader will feel a tingle ...
The first book I wrote – Cloudesley – was a fantasy adventure for children. I’ve worked on it since with my stepsons and we’ve had great fun coming up with ...
I wrote my first story when I was seven for my younger sister Caroline. It was about Sally Dumpling, a fairy with curves. She lived in a yellow rose and ...
To celebrate the release of her new book The Room by The Lake, Emma Dibdin tells us a little bit about herself. I moved to New York from London two ...
CJ and PK, who write the Sediment blog, are authors of the humorous new paperback I’ve Bought It, So I’ll Drink It: The joys (or not) of drinking wine. To ...
When I first arrived in London in the 1980s you could get into theatres for almost nothing if you were prepared to stand at the back. Then, if you were ...
Award-winning author Theresa Breslin writes a piece for us upon the release of her new novel, The Rasputin Dagger, a love story set in the Russian Revolution. I’ve written over ...
This one won't surprise anyone but I have a thing about blacksmiths – fire + muscles + sweat = HELLO! When I was researching the Star and Sixpence stories, I ...
Growing up in Texas, my twin sister, Heather and I were witnesses to my father's violent outbursts. My mother and step-mother were often on the receiving end of his rage. ...
My first book, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, is out in paperback now. The main character is Japanese and I wrote a lot of it in Tokyo, where I lived ...
Your brain likes an easy life. Capable of almost anything, rather than constantly growing, it spends much of its life doing the opposite to make your life easier. Our habits ...
I am ambidextrous. My teachers forced me to write with my right hand, but I wrote backwards with my right hand til second grade. I still like to pitch and bat ...
