Book News

13 June 2022

New book of poetry, art and short stories is published to raise money for Ukraine

The work of over 40 contributors (many of them women) from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia has been published in a new charity book of poetry and short stories celebrating Ukraine. All the proceeds ...

9 February 2022

Willow Smith’s debut novel, Black Shield Maiden, will be released in October 2022

Yesterday (February 8th, 2022), musician, actress and activist Willow Smith announced the release of her very first book, set to come out in October this year (2022).  The upcoming novel, ...
25 January 2022

Stephen King's Fairy Tale: Publication date set for September

Stephen King, an iconic horror author, has a brand new story coming out in September of this year (2022), and is set to focus on a teenage boy and his dog, Radar.  Along with ...
27 August 2021

See the cover for Holly Willoughby’s new book, Reflections

Holly Willoughby is one of Britain’s most-loves presenters. She is a pure and hilarious presence on screen, and her antics with Phillip Schofield on the set of This Morning brings joy ...
20 April 2020

How To Marry Your Husband -Jacqueline Rohen

How the book came about. My fiancé and I moved to Uganda full-time in June 2017 to expand our chimpanzee conservation project. The Bulindi Chimpanzee & Community Project was founded to ...

1 December 2015

Female First's top Christmas reads!

We thought we would round together some Christmas books for you this festive period- so check out the descriptions of our top choices and if that is not enough to ...
20 August 2014

The Shaman and the Mafia book trailer

Elizabeth Upton recently released her new book The Shaman and the Mafia, so we take a look at her new book trailer! Marietta Collins is a former nun who finds herself ...

17 August 2014

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

From the international bestselling author, Paying Guests is the first novel that Sarah Waters has written in five years, following her previous historical novel, The Little Stranger. It is set in ...

15 August 2014

Carole Beu reviews The Lighthouse

He Wants by Alison Moore is out today so we were interested not only in this novel but also her previous titles with Salt. In this video Carole Beu reviews The ...

15 August 2014

Alison Moore reads an extract from The Lighthouse

Alison Moore releases her new book He Wants today, so we take a look back at one of her last novels, The Lighthouse. In this video we see Moore reading an ...

14 August 2014

Julia Llewellyn answers reader questions

Lovestruck, by Julia Llewellyn is out today so we have a look at an interview about one of her previous novels Ten Minutes to Fall in love. In this video ...

14 August 2014

Julia Llewellyn discusses Ten Minutes to Fall in Love

Julia Llewellyn releases her new book Lovestruck today, so we take a look back at one of her previous novels Ten Minutes to Fall in Love. In this interview Llewellyn talks ...

14 August 2014

Kathy Lette gets all steamed up!

I am falling in love with Kathy Lette’s short videos- this author knows how to deliver a line and not just in a book. Her videos are short and snappy ...
14 August 2014

An extract from The Girls from Corona Del Mar by Rufi Thorpe

Rufi Thorpe releases her new novel today The Girls of Corona Del Mar and we have an extract for the book for you to whet your appetite with! The Girls of ...

14 August 2014

Kathy Lette talks about her first book Puberty Blues

Kathy Lette launches her new book Courting Trouble today so we take a look back at one of her old favourites Puberty Blues which she co-wrote with fellow author and ...
14 August 2014

Jacqui Rose talks inspiration for Trapped

Jacqui Rose’s new novel Avenged is out today, so we have a throwback Thursday and take a look at a video released for her previous novel Trapped. In this short she ...

29 July 2014

To Kill a Mockingbird most influential book by a female writer

#ThisBook is a social media campaign launched by the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and with their results; Harper Lee has revealed that To Kill a Mockingbird had got the ...
23 July 2014

Roald Dahl voted top children's author!

Heinz Pasta found that Roald Dahl has come out on top as the best children’s author of all time and commissioned this image in honour of one his most beloved ...
28 May 2014

David Walliams writes children's book about Simon Cowell's son

David Walliams has written a book about close friend Simon Cowell and his new son Eric. The 'Britain's Got Talent' judge has given the media mogul - who welcomed his first ...
6 April 2014

Bethenny Frankel Penning Kid's Book

Bethenny Frankel is writing a children's book. Bethenny Frankel is penning her first children's book, 'Cookie and Peanut', which is set for publishing in September. The 43-year-old reality TV star has been ...
6 March 2014

The Top 30 Worst Book Titles!

So it’s World Book Day and we thought we would give you a little giggle by finding the books with the most inappropriate titles of all time!   Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor ...

8 January 2014

One quarter of Brits want to self-publish a book

The saying goes that we all have a book inside us and 2014 is likely to prove just that as over one quarter (28%) of Brits’ New Year’s resolution is ...
20 October 2013

Angelina Jolie Gets £31M Book Deal

Angelina Jolie is reportedly close to singing a world record £31 million deal for her autobiography, with several US publishers now battling for the rights to the tell-all book. The 38-year-old ...
1 October 2013

Tango by Elizabeth Cage

Out of one life, into another.  As the vintage black Citroen DS glided down the motorway she leaned back in the passenger seat, wallowing in the lush orchestration of Piazzola’s Libertango ...