Author Interviews

Your work emails are backing up, the kids are refusing to do any schoolwork and throwing a major strop. Your house looks like it’s been ransacked, and you’re counting down ...

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a pioneer of photography, not just in her work with scientists such as Sir John Herschel on lenses and methods of developing prints, but also ...

My love of food stemmed from a childhood spent with my grandmother in Nigeria. She liked to visit her favourite half-sister in the heart of Lagos and dragged my brother ...

The first time I read a book with an autistic protagonist, I was in my late teens, maybe early twenties. By that point, I’d already read thousands of books, and ...

On publication of his debut adult novel To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, Eragon author talks to exclusively to Female First about achieving his goals. Trust the process. That’s ...

“Hey Hudson! Come downstairs, I made you a cupcake!” My blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter, Isabel, calls up the stairs to her little brother. Four-year-old Hudson has been busy all morning in ...

Firstly, I must preface this with the fact I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist or health professional in any way. I am a husband, father, brother, son and uncle who ...

Adapted from Purposeful Breathing (Exisle Publishing) By Dr. Greg Smith Whenever I feel tension, I focus on breathing. Here, we will explore three easy breathing techniques that draw on both ...

When it comes to our health, it’s all about the choices we make. Ultimately, we all make decisions about what we eat and drink every single day, and trust me ...

Last spring, I’d welcomed the prospect of extra days and hours to work on my current novel. I could balance a swiftly assembled virtual teaching schedule and have more than ...

By Dr Helena Boschi, author of Why We Do What We Do The last five months, in the wake of Covid-19, have not been easy for a number of reasons: ...

I never expected to write a big historical novel. I never had any urge to write about the Second World War either, but one day I was in the lift ...

Learning and re-learning is the theme of my lockdown. Perhaps ‘remembering’ is a better word. Like finding lost moments I used to have in my life, it’s been a process ...

A Witness to Murder. published by Bookouture, is the third book in my historical murder mystery series. The heroine, and reluctant sleuth, Lady Eleanor Swift has been brought up abroad ...

Way back in January, my family and I raised a glass to 2020, a year that was meant to be truly outstanding. In 2020, my debut novel The Girl from ...

Author of Could It Be Insulin Resistance? (Hammersmith Books) Education is one of the most important things if you want to bring about a lifestyle change, as cutting out sugar ...

The Temple area of London, where generations of barristers have lived and worked, has survived the Plague, the Great Fire of London and the Blitz. But I doubt it had ...

Most people don’t realise that self-esteem is knocked back more by everyday events than by the big setbacks in life. For example, we can get used to being herded like ...

Audible is advertised on pretty much every YouTube video I click on these days, so I figured it was about time I tried it out along with my colleagues here ...

I was asked by Female First to share what I’ve been doing during the pandemic. Here are the main ways I’ve been spending my time: 1 – I’ve been hunting ...

Tears dropped onto my phone as his email message blurred before my eyes. John was dying. That’s what he’d written to tell me. He had end-stage kidney disease and he ...

In the midst of all this seemingly endless bad news, with gloomy economic forecasts, a climate emergency not to mention a global pandemic- how do we save ourselves from falling ...

You thought being stuck together might be a cutesy rom-com. Turns out, it’s a horror story. Deadly glares. Screaming. A shocking crime scene. Well, not really, but the kitchen looks ...

Quit for Covid - there’s never a bad time to stop smoking and quitting now has a double benefit. Smoking is a Covid-19 risk in itself because of the lung ...