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Answering requests from friends and family to write something a little more edgy, I knew that Promises, Secrets, Danger needed to be different to my previous books. The ask was ...

Born in Cyprus to RAF parents, Marianna Holmes is a woman who spent her earlier years bouncing between the UK, Germany, Kuwait and Belgium, before finally basing herself in London, ...

My name is Kelso Simon, I am an everyday working class guy born and raised in Leicester. They say life begins at 40. For me that sentiment appears to hold some truth. ...

To celebrate the recent release of her new novel The Floating Theatre, we asked author Martha Conway to let us in on 10 things she'd like all of her readers ...

I love crime fiction. I always have. So when I set myself the target of writing and publishing five crime novels I already had my enthusiasm and passion for the ...

Firstly, I should point out that as an author I am definitely a late starter. I seem to be following the statistic which says we will all have three careers ...

With the paperback release of A Time of Dread (Pan Macmillan) fantasy author John Gwynne shares some interesting facts about himself to celebrate. 1. I’m married to a wonderful woman, Caroline. ...

When I met Nicky Nicholls, I was a writer, editor and mum with a frantic side-line in keeping plates spinning. My plans for the future included more work on an ...

Lost since 1972, and discovered in Wales, My Life with John Steinbeck allows Gwyn Steinbeck, John Steinbeck’s second wife and the mother of his two children, to tell her story ...

Elizabeth Woodcraft’s new book The Saturday Girls is a passionate evocation of the heady days of the Sixties when to be cool you had to be a mod or a ...

When my daughter was born, I was asked a lot about my emotional wellbeing by doctors and midwives. What they were really asking was: ‘have you got postnatal depression?’ I ...

As a foster carer I’ve learnt to expect the unexpected, think on my feet, and face harrowing, difficult and upsetting situations. Take for example Jodie (Damaged) who’d been dreadfully sexually ...

Following the release of Amazon best seller The Future is Freelance, we got author Kirsty Hulse to give us her top tips on starting out in the freelance world, for ...

My debut novel A Yellow House that came out this summer tells some horrifying stories of the things migrant domestic workers encounter in Singapore as they live and work inside ...

It’s said that Gemini is the most versatile (and the most easily bored) sign of the zodiac, so perhaps it’s just as well I have a very varied writing life. ...

For decades, Britons have been waving au revoir to Blighty and trading suburban semis for romantic, run-down gites in Brittany and the Dordogne. Today, almost 200,000 of us call France ...

My day starts at 7am when the alarm drags me from the depths and it’s time to get the family up and get my two children out to school. Whilst I ...

I grew up in San Sebastian, in the Basque Country on the coast of Spain. My family was very matriarchal, and still is. Quite close by there is an area ...

Monday morning can be a real downer as you wave goodbye to the weekend and think about what lies ahead at work week. It doesn’t have to be like this! ...

Formerly working as an attorney, Sejal Badani left the profession to pursue writing full-time, and what a great decision she made! With her new book The Storyteller's Secret on the ...

To celebrate the release of her new book The Adults, we asked author Caroline Hulse to let us and her readers know 10 things about her that she wouldn't mind sharing! ...

Mary Torjussen is back with her new book The Girl I Used To Be. To celebrate its release, she's written a feature all about the world of revenge porn she researched ...

Anyone who has freed themselves from an abusive intimate partnership is familiar with the expression “reinvention.” It is a staple, these days – an optimistic buzzword that conjures images of ...