Books

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

It’s the question all writers dread. 'Where do you get your ideas?' We dread it because the real answers – 'I don’t know', 'everywhere and nowhere', 'from my head' – ...

Since 2020 has kept us all a little closer to home, I have been reflecting on all the travel I was able to do before the pandemic. Specifically, how I ...

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 ...

Everyone can feel down or anxious, even panicky or scared, these are all normal emotions. Most of the time we have coping strategies to guide us through our experiences. Generally, ...

When “self-help” became a trend over thirty years ago, it seemed that every latter-day guru was telling us to “live in the moment.” We were instructed to put the past ...

Winging It begins with the protagonist Emily in the middle of labour, as she brings her little girl Lucy into the world.  As a reader you are quite literally thrown ...

In March at the beginning of the Covid 19 crisis I had been sitting at my computer for hours, clacking away on the keyboard in an attempt to reach the ...

General Practice has changed massively over the past forty or so years when it comes to its effectiveness and patient experience. A report from the World Health Organisation has shown ...

For so many of us lockdown meant a juggle of working, home-schooling, and trying to keep our sanity. Novelist Anna Jefferson explains how she found salvation in the chilly welcome ...

I was gifted Have Yourself A Minimalist Christmas on my birthday by my mum. I had actually asked for it as a Christmas present, but as she rightfully said, ‘you ...