(Gollancz, £9.99) Raphael, the Archangel of New York, is the most dangerous hero I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. Only Singh could bring such an amazing man to life, ...
Having retired from a long career as a chartered surveyor, Jade Nicole-Bracken now lives in South Yorkshire. The Ring’s List is the author’s inaugural novel. Here, they share their inspiration ...
By Gill Hasson, author of Communication: How to Connect with Anyone Small talk can lead to big things! Small talk is simply about connecting; to come across as an approachable, ...
I would like to start this article by letting you know that it has not been an easy journey that brings me here. Opening up to my connection with spirit ...
I was born and raised in a council house by the sea on the south coast of Cornwall and have always taken inspiration from my homeland. I left school at ...
I have a penchant for handsome, brooding detectives, my favourite being Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn, so I decided to write my own. Esa broods with the best of them—partly because ...
It depends on the book and the setting, but I usually do have something of a playlist, a soundtrack for the story. For the books set in South Louisiana, that's ...
I have always wanted to write a book but I haven’t always wanted to be an author. I didn’t realise that once I’d written one book, I would be persuaded ...
With the cast of RuPaul's Drag Race UK officially revealed, fans of the franchise across the globe have been discussing what they think each of them will bring to the series, and ...
I wanted to be a writer from a very early age and wrote my first novel at ten – a doubtless torturous boarding school book, a la Enid Blyton, about ...
Michelle Keegan returns to our screens in Sky One's hilarious new comedy/drama Brassic on Thursday and she sat down with Female First to give us an exclusive insight into a ...
I am not a creature of habit. Not withstanding my daily ritual of morning coffee making, without which I am a witchy mother and wife, and not the spicy sage ...
It can feel (absolutely impossible) really hard Because it is. Working full time pre-children, there were days when I thought: ‘Wow, I have SO much to do, this is ...
Chocolate can help you to lose weight. No, really. Neuroscientist Will Clower has found that a small square of good choc melted on the tongue 20 minutes before a meal ...
DAVID STEINMAN is an international revolutionary best known for his strategic planning role in Ethiopia’s recent democracy revolution. He exposed the Ethiopian dictatorship’s human rights abuses, theft of thirty billion ...
Two great pieces have been doing the social media rounds. One was by the author of Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte, in The Guardian about the discovery she made when looking into ...
Preparation. I like to have the book in its entirety mapped out before I begin. This involves plotting the general outline on an A4 pad. When I know where it’s ...
Unconventionality rules in UGLYDOLLS, the new animated family adventure based on the beloved toy brand. In the adorably different town of Uglyville, the free-spirited Moxy (Kelly Clarkson) and her UglyDolls ...
We spoke with Lucy Clark who stars in the new football film Fanatical, which has its World Premiere on September 5th at the Troxy in London. To buy premiere tickets, click here. Fanatical ...
The hook. This is the starting point of any story. For this exercise, it comes in a tidal wave of blogs, apps, and articles that tout the notion that ‘wellness,’ ...
Offred refuses to be stripped of her desires or her agency, a simmering volcano enduring unending nightmares in a dystopia that increasingly feels like a documentary of the future. Reno ...
Big Boys Cry - New children’s book aims to empower young boys to embrace and understand their emotions, to save future generations of men from mental health issues. Big Boys ...
