Celebrity Interviews

2 July 2019

Seven reasons to break the rules by Georgia Varjas

By Georgia Varjas, author of The Rule Breaker’s Guide to Step Up & Stand Out (Filament, £11.99, July 2019, available online and in all good bookshops, https://georgiavarjas.com) Life is too ...

1 July 2019

10 Things you need to know about Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease: Medical myopia and the hidden global pandemic by Dr Bernard Raxlen and Allie Cashel, Hammersmith Books, £15.99, 31st July 2019 I grew up in a small town, about ...

1 July 2019

Poems to mend a broken heart

So: to the marriage of true minds, impediments were admitted. Love was not love, and altered. Someone stopped counting the ways in which they loved. Love was once like a ...

1 July 2019

A day in the life of me by Gary Nicholls

Alexa wakes me with a chime, it is 6am. I have packed the car the night before with all my studio equipment so cup of tea and shower before a ...

1 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Angela Petch

If I were born again, I’d choose to be Italian. I lived in Rome for seven years as a child as my father worked there for the Commowealth War Graves ...

1 July 2019

How I explore the issues that affect children in my writing by Ali Seegar

I was recently asked the question: how do I write difficult or educational topics into my books without lecturing, boring or—worse of all—discouraging children from reading. I admit it was ...

1 July 2019

10 Things you may not know about Big Pharma by Hedley Rees

Author of Taming the Big Pharma Monster (Filament Publishing, May 2019, £14.99) Straight answers are not easy to get out of Big Pharma. Smoke and mirrors abound, as patients try ...

1 July 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Merilyn Davies

When I was little, I had a Tortoise called Bannister - after Roger Bannister, the man who ran the first sub-4-minute mile. One winter he went to hibernate and in ...

27 June 2019

My KonMari Murder Method, by award-winning author Ovidia Yu

It’s the latest decluttering fad that promises to spark joy into our lives through a ‘sort and purge’ process. But, writes the bestselling novelist Ovidia Yu, the KonMari Method is ...

27 June 2019

My golden summer romance by Gilly Macmillan

He and I met in French class at a college in the foothills of Northern California. I thought of them as velvet hills. They were golden in the sunshine, the ...

24 June 2019

My top ten mystery-writer resources by Clare Chase

I do most of my research online, and it’s usually very targeted. It’s great for quick answers, and can lead further. However, it’s often the books I use for background ...

24 June 2019

Deborah Lawrenson and Robert Rees discuss writing as a husband and wife team

Deborah Lawrenson and Robert Rees reveal to Female First what it's like to write a book together when you are also husband and wife. Deborah: ‘I have to confess that ...

22 June 2019

Seven things you need to know about Hypnosis

By Sheila Granger, author of No more diets! Believe in a healthier, better you. Many of the people my practitioners and I see have been on a journey through a ...

22 June 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Julie D. Jones

I grew up in South Devon, living in a small village in the South Hams. Devon is an amazing place; it was natural for me to set my novels in ...

20 June 2019

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Jacqueline O'Mahony

I lived in Italy for three years in my early twenties. I went there knowing no Italian at all, and I had to learn it quickly, to survive. I watched ...

20 June 2019

A day in the life of author David Atkinson

3am woke up with a great idea for my current manuscript, typed it into my phone notes and went back to sleep. Most of my good ideas turn up during ...

20 June 2019

Victoria Louise Howard reveals the inspiration behind her new book Unfamiliar Underground

I was 21 when I had an incident at an overcrowded train station in London. Before this, I had never been a big fan of crowded places, although after the ...

20 June 2019

Six reasons why it's important to cook, even if you are time poor

Over the last couple of years, I have dramatically changed my lifestyle and my health, losing almost six stone in the process! Living off high calorie processed food was making ...

20 June 2019

Seven reasons to get a book subscription

Book subscriptions - like Rare Birds Book Club - are the most exciting thing to happen in the reading world since the advent of the printing press (we think so, ...

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