Life in Lashes, the official memoir of Kita Mean, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under and international drag star will be published in the UK on 13th October this year. ...
Author Ian Brown and illustrator Eoin Clarke are children’s literature’s dream team, and they continue to go from strength to strength with new children’s picture books Albert in the Air ...
Author Jenna Kernan’s new release, The Ex-Wives, is a dark, twisty domestic thriller set inside the safety of an exclusive gated community in sunny Florida. Though I often make Florida ...
Oxford has Inspector Morse and now Abruzzo has Major D’Angelo – the new Italian crime fighter that will have you shouting ‘brillante’! In this exclusive interview we speak to the ...
Sabine dreams of living as an artist in Paris; Hélène has grown up living between her middle-class aunt and uncle and her more modest parents; Mariette is learning the secrets ...
In this very interesting '7 things' piece we asked Veronique to give us an insight into what she feels her readers would like to know about her which we are ...
Teaching our swing dance class Our dance classes are quite varied. It's possible to have a mix of young and old, girls and boys, experienced dancers and complete novices and ...
In this exclusive for Femalefirst Mark Pieser reveals some amazing and shocking facts about his book N-4 Down you will be enthralled amaed and shocked - read on Roald Amundsen ...
When I was a shy, awkward fourteen-year-old, I had the great fortune of befriending the coolest girl in the world. I’ll call her Lex. Lex was a few years older ...
Over the past four decades, seasoned traveller Graham Askey has visited nearly 100 countries, including many far off the beaten track where poverty and a lack of basic amenities such ...
Writing can be a lonely business – long hours spent hunched over a keyboard, silence all around – so give an author a chance to talk and they’ll chew your ...
About Alison Ragsdale A former marketing executive, originally from Edinburgh, Alison now lives near Washington D.C. with her husband and dog. She was educated in England and holds an MBA ...
Fantasy is the oldest genre in the world, the genre of myths and legends. It’s also the genre I always come home to as a writer, both for the infinite ...
To say that Pet Semetary is dark is to say that water is wet. There are no nice feelings in this book. Bad things happen to reasonably good people caught ...
SMALL DEATHS
Rijula Das
In the red-light district of Shonagachhi, Lalee dreams of trading a life of penury and violence for one of relative luxury as a better-paid ‘escort’. Her ...
Author Rijula Das talks to us about her new book "Small Deaths' and gives us an insight into her life and ambtions and her view on fellow author Terry Pratchett Tell ...
Dear pTerry
I’ve always been too cool to be a ‘fan’ of anyone, save a youthful phase of being madly enamored of Leonardo Di Caprio in the winter of 1997 and ...
Character drives the narrative.
The omnipotent power to mold a person on the page is a delicious prospect. To be believable, the reader must be given intimate insight into a character’s ...
I used to believe grief was a straight line. Maybe time didn’t necessarily heal all wounds, but at least it made them easier to live with. I learned differently on ...
I write emotionally charged psychological thrillers and want the reader to turn the last page feeling like they’ve been through a carwash in a shopping trolley. My favourite books are ...
Dear Louise, As I write this letter, I can imagine you tipping your head back and laughing that larger than life laugh of yours and telling me I’m mad for ...
When people say they don’t drink what do you think? If you don’t drink how do people react? Before I went alcohol-free for the first time in 2013, I thought ...
1. As a student in the 1970s, I went to live in West Germany and was almost immediately thrown out of my lodgings when the tenants discovered they shouldn’t be ...
