Books

By Sid Madge, author of the ‘Meee in a Minute’ series of books During Covid -19, if we are lucky, we have been able to stay home, reconnect with family ...

I’ve only been writing for four years. Before that, although I worked in and enjoyed theatre, I’d never once wanted to write anything for it. I had seen a not ...

By the author of the Dylan Series – Awakening of Spies (June 2020) and Families of Spies (July 30 2020) http://www.brianlanders.co.uk/ Everyone has a novel inside them. To transfer that ...

Like most people, I met the advent of the year 2020 with a particular sense of excitement and anticipation of renewal. There’s something about the turn of a decade that ...

The most surprising thing about lockdown was how little my life changed as a result of it. A year ago, my husband and I left our hectic lives – and ...

*I'm a former pediatric emergency medicine physician *I've met a serial killer *I walked away from two hard landings in helicopters ...

On the whole, my lockdown experience has been positive. This isn’t something I take for granted. I know how lucky I am to be able to say this. I live ...

Being at home has got me thinking. With my noise cancelling headphones permanently switched on to avoid the loud meetings and telephone calls about the house, I have found myself ...

I spent much of my lockdown in the company of an alien that invaded my body, and made me as chubby as the fluffy fledgling birds nibbling the fat balls ...

While nothing is back to normal as we knew it, the question of how we have spent our lockdown is a daunting one for many. There’s a sudden realization that ...

My writing process is a bit of a mystery, even to me.  I have never been able to plot a novel out ahead of time. I started out writing literary ...

Organizations and, if we believe stereotypes, male bosses often hold the belief that people should leave their emotions at the door when they come to work. In working with countless ...

For a lot of us, lockdown was a massive shift. No more going into the office. Juggling meetings with childcare and home-schooling, being apart from friends and family… learning how ...

Celia Gaze... who went from NHS Director to putting bow ties on Llamas… Former NHS Director turned entrepreneur and author, Celia Gaze founded the multi award-winning Wellbeing Farm https://thewellbeingfarm.co.uk/ - ...

The 20% Rule is the latest book from mutli-award winning bestselling female author, Catherine Gladwyn. In a world where business books are largely dominated by men it’s refreshing to see ...

Three poems, one short story written, five paintings, two floribunda roses, twenty geranium, six nemesia, one blue agapantha, ten mixed nasturtium, two French lavender planted, fifty brambles cut back, one ...

1. I am partial to the 2003 FA Cup Final. I was 10, and I had crushes on the entire Arsenal starting 11. It was a big match for Southampton’s ...

If there is one thing we have all learnt in lockdown, it’s that we don’t need to go shopping. Certainly not for clothes. Let’s be honest - we don’t see ...

Before Covid-19, lockdown was a concept I’d associated with a fictional attack on the White House in an over-the-top Hollywood thriller. Now for a generation of global citizens the word ...

By Matthew Ross, author of Death of a Painter, Red Dog Press, April 2020 Have you ever had a lifelong ambition and when you finally achieve it, it’s nothing like ...

Fully engaged, ‘active’ listening is hard work for beginners. It requires first a strong desire to hear what the other person is saying. This requires you to be genuinely interested ...

By Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown, author of The Dreamer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Creative Unconscious, March 2020, Free Association Books, £14.99 The science of dreaming has not yet caught up with ...

author of My Perfect Sister, RedDoor Press As soon as I learned to read I began my career as a bookworm. I devoured books like others did packets of crisps ...