Celebrity Interviews

26 October 2020

Time for change in relation to men’s mental health issues

Men have been suffering in silence about their mental health for too long. Suicide rates in men are three times higher than for women, and several thousand men die by ...

26 October 2020

Five ways to travel fearlessly

There is a certain level of discomfort in travel. While you may be craving adventure and feel ready to jump into another culture, stepping out of your comfort zone will ...

26 October 2020

A widower’s guide to getting through your first solo Christmas

You can be surrounded by family and friends and be the loneliest person in the world following the loss of your partner. Christmas can feel like an impossible hurdle as ...

26 October 2020

N E Carlisle shares her inspiration for her new book Mermaid Eclipse

As a child, the sea drew me in with its amazing creatures and myths. When I held a shell up to my ear, I truly believed the ocean was speaking ...

26 October 2020

Martin Roberts discusses his new children's book Sadsville

Martin Roberts is one of the UK’s most respected property, travel and lifestyle TV presenters and journalists. Away from television, Martin Roberts is also an established children’s book author and runs ...

26 October 2020

Empathy is a woman’s superpower. Or is it? by Mimi Nicklin

Are women prone to empathising more deeply and naturally, or is it a lifetime of social ‘training’ that has led women to generally be more pro social as a natural ...
26 October 2020

Seven ways this concept of ‘what’s right and wrong’ will enhance your relationships

By Valerie A. Campbell, enhanced relationships expert and author. It was from the stillness of meditation that I received the message. It was a profound message and it was clear. ...

26 October 2020

Seven things you need to know about beekeeping

Many people have taken up new hobbies to fill their time since lockdown first started in March – and one hobby that’s been creating a real buzz this year is ...

26 October 2020

Exclusive: Nina Toussaint-White discusses new ITV drama The Sister and reveals what you can expect

Halloween is about to get a little more spooky with the arrival of crime drama The Sister on ITV.  Airing over four consecutive nights, the series stars the likes of ...

26 October 2020

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Ellyn Oaksmith

1) I'd rather be reading. Few things, besides my family, interest me more than a good book. I read a book once about a lifelong reader who said he took books to ...

23 October 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Fiona Veitch Smith

Greta Garbo, in the film Grand Hotel, famously said: ‘I want to be alone!’ That line has never been so pertinent to me as during lockdown. I realise that for ...

23 October 2020

Finding the loveliness in lockdown by Lauren H. Brandenburg

I did not spend my lockdown writing for hours, crafting a literary masterpiece or for that matter even a couple thousand words of my work in progress. Actually, I’m not ...

22 October 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Tony Lee Moral

As a writer I’m familiar with spending long periods in isolation in confined spaces. But after a few months of lockdown even that has proved to be challenging for even ...

22 October 2020

Finding inspiration for your children’s book - Top tips from an author

By Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia One of the most common questions authors are asked is where the inspiration for their stories comes from. Depending on the story – the answer may ...

20 October 2020

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Peter Hogenkamp

I am a huge ABBA fan. Mama Mia! How could you not love ABBA? If you haven’t listened to them, why not Take a Chance on Them? Do I really ...

16 October 2020

10 Things I'd like my readers to know about me by Ken Langer

1. I fell in love with India. From the moment I read Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras during my first year in college, I knew India would be a big part of ...
16 October 2020

How being in the present moment through yoga can help us to accept change

By Jane Macpherson, yoga teacher (IYA 500 hours) and yoga therapist who has been helping her clients embrace change for more than 15 years. www.janemacphersonyoga.co.uk Thank goodness for yoga during ...

15 October 2020

How personalised books can encourage reading and aid learning by children’s author Mike Molloy

THE LOOK OF COMPLETE ASTONISHMENT on the child’s face I gave my first ever personalised book to was enough to convince me that personalised books are 100% the way forward ...

15 October 2020

Exclusive: Survivors and activists India and Catherine Oxenberg reveal the truth about NXIVM cult

It’s a story that has been widely reported on in the press, but after years of tabloids clambering for a word from survivor India Oxenberg about what she went through ...

15 October 2020

My lockdown experience by Emma Heatherington

2020 was going to be such a big year for my family after a particularly turbulent 2019 and we had so much to look forward to. My partner’s 50th birthday ...
15 October 2020

Cathy Kelly discusses her new book The Family Gift

I will never, ever be able to make an elevator pitch – the ones where you pitch a fabulous idea in a lift to some Hollywood mogul as I am ...

15 October 2020

Six things you didn’t know about the ‘nippies’ – waitresses at iconic Lyons teashops

Elaine Everest is the author of bestselling saga series including the Woolworths Girls and Teashops Girls. Here, she rounds up six things you probably didn’t know about the waitresses – ...

15 October 2020

How I spent my lockdown by Rosie Goodwin

It’s been a very strange and disturbing year one way or another with the terrible Corona pandemic sweeping across the world but I’ve been luckier than some because I work ...