My ninth novel is published this week. As usual, I will be racing around on P-Day, doing the million-and-one things you do as a terrified-yet-excited author watching your brand new ...
When it comes to changing unwanted habits, consider whether you associate being kind to yourself with making choices you’ll be happy you made in a week’s or a month’s time. ...
There was never a time when I didn’t have my sister in my life although she, being older, had four blissful years of peace before having to share her world ...
I’ve always been fascinated with stories. But my family struggled financially, and we didn't have a computer let alone money for books. I spent many days scouring playgrounds for cans ...
For so long I feared the word fat and would often opt for anything that said fat free. Since studying nutrition I’ve learnt the true meaning and purpose of fat, ...
The Poison Bed is very dark, full of twisty intrigue, murder and lies, set against the backdrop of the Jacobean court with all its ambition and glamour. Told from the ...
What glorious assumptions, that THE READING PARTY will have readers and that they will want to know about the author! As a first-time writer, I don’t take such things for ...
The format of a writer’s day totally depends on where the writer is at in her current writing project… If I’m near the beginning, I might be plotting and planning ...
I find coming up with ten things I'd like anyone to know about me a little tricky, as although I put larger than life characters out there though my writing, ...
I’m half-Arab and half-Scottish. Growing up in London, it seemed completely usual to me to have parents from such different backgrounds. Now I’m older I feel so grateful that I ...
Life has changed so much over the last 50 years that it becomes increasingly difficult to recall what life was like for all of us growing up in the 1960s. ...
I was educated in Welsh from about the age of four, and definitely think this has had a major impact on my writing. I studied Welsh Literature a lot at ...
1 – I lived in Istanbul for eleven years and speak Turkish, which comes in handy in kebab shops. I loved the food culture in Turkey and the general hospitality, ...
Sarah Ashley Neal trained in holistic therapies and dabbled in business before launching Emotional Sandwiches®. When she isn’t engaging with her entrepreneurial mindset, she is reconciled with a yoga mat ...
I was a Parisienne for 18 years and frankly, there was very little I found romantic when I lived there. Intense emotion occurred only when the bus stop was cleaned, ...
You can bring the power of yes into your daily life without turning your world upside down – here are ten simple tips to get you started: Never stop learning. ...
Julie writes a piece for us on the publication of her new novel Disappearance at Oare A writer writes every day…. or do I? Leading up to the publication of ...
