Books

I can remember the exact moment I thought it would be cool to be an assassin. It was seeing Lucy Liu as the cut-throat O-ren Ishii strutting along a corridor ...

My husband left me unexpectedly. I still remember how I felt as I watched him pick up his bags and walk out the front door. During the first weeks, months ...

My parents named me Lara after one of their favorite novels and films Doctor Zhivago. When I was a child, I used to wind-up my mother’s musical jewelry box again ...

A blind date can be terrifying, it’s the kind of date where you do not know the last name and maybe not even the first name; you cannot search their ...

Amazon best-selling author, tech-preneur, global media industry leader, mother of 4 and insuppressibly alpha female, Bianca Best, provides an effective six step plan to redefine success and find both personal ...

As Hannah Pearls' debut novel appears on bookshop shelves, she talks to us of writing - and reading - with M.E. ... I’ve always loved books. One of my first ...

I had two main ambitions when I was growing up. The first one was to become a published children’s book author. It all started when my mother gave me a ...

It is supposed that the Romans called Scotland ‘Caledonia’ because of it’s harsh, rocky landscape. However, when I think of Scotland, an incredibly rich caleidoscope begins; I watch my feet ...

(Gollancz, £9.99) Raphael, the Archangel of New York, is the most dangerous hero I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. Only Singh could bring such an amazing man to life, ...

Having retired from a long career as a chartered surveyor, Jade Nicole-Bracken now lives in South Yorkshire. The Ring’s List is the author’s inaugural novel. Here, they share their inspiration ...

I began learning to read when I was three. I was no child prodigy, and by any rate there was no need to start me off at such an early ...

By Gill Hasson, author of Communication: How to Connect with Anyone Small talk can lead to big things! Small talk is simply about connecting; to come across as an approachable, ...

I would like to start this article by letting you know that it has not been an easy journey that brings me here. Opening up to my connection with spirit ...

I was born and raised in a council house by the sea on the south coast of Cornwall and have always taken inspiration from my homeland. I left school at ...

I have a penchant for handsome, brooding detectives, my favourite being Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn, so I decided to write my own. Esa broods with the best of them—partly because ...

It depends on the book and the setting, but I usually do have something of a playlist, a soundtrack for the story. For the books set in South Louisiana, that's ...

I have always wanted to write a book but I haven’t always wanted to be an author. I didn’t realise that once I’d written one book, I would be persuaded ...

I wanted to be a writer from a very early age and wrote my first novel at ten – a doubtless torturous boarding school book, a la Enid Blyton, about ...

I am not a creature of habit. Not withstanding my daily ritual of morning coffee making, without which I am a witchy mother and wife, and not the spicy sage ...

  It can feel (absolutely impossible) really hard Because it is. Working full time pre-children, there were days when I thought: ‘Wow, I have SO much to do, this is ...

I must admit, I can’t get enough of all the books on the market right now that encourage you to ‘live more with less’. While Lightly touches upon the importance ...

DAVID STEINMAN is an international revolutionary best known for his strategic planning role in Ethiopia’s recent democracy revolution. He exposed the Ethiopian dictatorship’s human rights abuses, theft of thirty billion ...