Celebrity Interviews

24 November 2020

Stress in pregnancy may influence baby brain development

A new study by the University of Edinburgh has found that stress in pregnancy may influence baby brain development, so we caught up with Professor Rebecca Reynolds Personal Chair of ...

Pregnancy Stress Babies

23 November 2020

Seven things I've learned about crime writing while creating Child X by author Mick Lee

Mick Lee, author of Child X shares the seven things he learned about crime writing during the process: 1. No subject is too difficult to cover when it comes to ...

23 November 2020

Five authors share their favourite Puffin books to mark the publisher's 80th Birthday

As Puffin celebrates its 80th Birthday this year, we asked five authors to share their favourite books by the publisher and it's a wonderfully eclectic and inclusive mix. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit ...

23 November 2020

How art can help children understand the world around them and their place in it

Can you remember painting or drawing as a child and how time seemed to fly by? Or the satisfaction of taking a picture home from school to be admired? Watching ...

23 November 2020

How I spent lockdown by Suzie Tullett, author of Holly's Christmas Countdown

Well what a year 2020 has been. Thanks to Covid-19, we’ve all suffered upheavals and many of us have experienced losses. Although it’s just like me to make matters even ...

Christmas

23 November 2020

Joelle Taylor discusses her short story in the new collection Ink Tales

Fairy tales are maps. They were written for children to use to navigate their lives and beliefs, to understand their place in the social order, to understand their limitation and ...

22 November 2020

Three things you should know about interracial relationships by Tineka Smith

Falling in love is easier than keeping it alive. Time eventually sees to it that we descend from the heady heights of cloud nine into a less romantic, warts-and-all kind ...

Susan Annis / Picture Credit: A & E Networks

21 November 2020

The case of Susan Annis: An exclusive interview with Dr John Parsley

Brand new and exclusive to Crime+Investigation, Murder at My Door with Kym Marsh explores four cases of innocent people murdered by someone they thought they could trust. The stories show that ...

Kym Marsh Murder True Crime

Calvin Goldspink chats to Female First on the release of his new single The Cold

20 November 2020

Exclusive: Calvin Goldspink returns with new single and tells us all about his career to-date

Following a six-year hiatus, singer, actor and all-round entertainer, Calvin Goldspink has returned to the music scene, today (November 20th) dropping his second new single of 2020. To celebrate the ...

S Club 7

Understanding Children and Teens: A Practical Guide for Parents, Teachers and Coaches

19 November 2020

Seven ways a parent can get a better understanding of their children

I’d like to offer you seven ways to get a better understanding of your children. Why seven? One of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) beliefs of excellence is that ‘the person ...

19 November 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Laura Buckingham, author of It Will Happen

Wow what a year. Global pandemic aside this year has had many ups and downs for me personally. In January I went back to work after maternity leave and was ...

19 November 2020

How I spent my lockdown by author Anne Youngson

I am lucky. I live in the middle of beautiful countryside, surrounded by a large garden. If I look back over the year since March, I would appear to have ...

19 November 2020

Seven little known benefits of taking care of your feet by Yamuna Zake

Our feet are our foundation, yet we take them for granted and give them little attention except when we’re shopping for fancy or comfortable shoes. They are fundamental to our ...

17 November 2020

A guide to getting through the festive season with IBS

Dietitian, Bari Stricoff, and Nutritionist, Sophie Bertrand - authors of the much-anticipated, no-nonsense guide to health & nutrition, Forking Wellness, & co-hosts of the Forking Wellness podcast - give us ...

Christmas IBS

17 November 2020

Seven things you need to know about Apraxia by Dana Hall

Sometimes children are late-talkers, but sometimes more. Conditions like childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) do not organically ‘get better’ in time. Children with communication disorders often demonstrated anxiety, frustration, and ...

17 November 2020

How I spent lockdown by Vernae Ewing

When COVID-19 hit, my every normal activity and way of life shifted. I found myself tuned in to every informational venue I could find. Reports were coming from many sources, ...

16 November 2020

Paranormal and romance- a shared magic by Tracey Shearer, author of Raven

Two years ago, when my literary agent had to suddenly retire to take care of her ailing hubby, I prepared to pitch to new agents at a local writers’ conference. ...

16 November 2020

What to look out for during the foraging season by Alysia Vasey, author of The Yorkshire Forager

Alysia Vasey is better known as The Yorkshire Forager, supplying the UK’s top restaurants. She is the regular forager on James Martin’s Saturday Show and has appeared on Countryfile, as ...

James Martin

16 November 2020

10 Things I want my readers to know about me by Neil MacDonald

1. I was inspired to write The Tears of Boabdil by revelations about undercover policemen having sex with their targets. We now know that, over four decades, at least 139 undercover ...

Books

Music To Eat Cake By: Essays on Birds, Words and Everything in Between

15 November 2020

13 November 2020

My favourite crime thrillers by Jon Gliddon, author of The Forbidden Zone

1. Of the 19 Ian Rankin novels, my favourite is Black and Blue. DI John Rebus is the hard drinking, heavy smoking Edinburgh detective who shows scant regard for his ...