1) I'd rather be reading. Few things, besides my family, interest me more than a good book. I read a book once about a lifelong reader who said he took books to ...
Greta Garbo, in the film Grand Hotel, famously said: ‘I want to be alone!’ That line has never been so pertinent to me as during lockdown. I realise that for ...
I did not spend my lockdown writing for hours, crafting a literary masterpiece or for that matter even a couple thousand words of my work in progress. Actually, I’m not ...
As a writer I’m familiar with spending long periods in isolation in confined spaces. But after a few months of lockdown even that has proved to be challenging for even ...
By Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia One of the most common questions authors are asked is where the inspiration for their stories comes from. Depending on the story – the answer may ...
By Jane Macpherson, yoga teacher (IYA 500 hours) and yoga therapist who has been helping her clients embrace change for more than 15 years. www.janemacphersonyoga.co.uk Thank goodness for yoga during ...
THE LOOK OF COMPLETE ASTONISHMENT on the child’s face I gave my first ever personalised book to was enough to convince me that personalised books are 100% the way forward ...
2020 was going to be such a big year for my family after a particularly turbulent 2019 and we had so much to look forward to. My partner’s 50th birthday ...
Elaine Everest is the author of bestselling saga series including the Woolworths Girls and Teashops Girls. Here, she rounds up six things you probably didn’t know about the waitresses – ...
It’s been a very strange and disturbing year one way or another with the terrible Corona pandemic sweeping across the world but I’ve been luckier than some because I work ...
March sees me writing about unbelievably brave women who flew Spitfires for the Air Transport Auxiliary service during World War Two. Those Atta girls were up there at 30,000 feet ...
It was only when I was pregnant with my daughter that I first became truly involved with the world of online influencers. Of course, I knew they existed before that, ...
The online parenting forum is 20 years old this year, so what do you need to know before venturing on the site? Recognition Act, gender-critical women have formed grassroots organisations ...
We’ve probably all known those moments – the ones that leave you questioning yourself because you’ve misunderstood something or forgotten what someone said. You assume they’re right, that it was ...
My latest YA novel, Breathless, is the book I needed when I was eighteen. A very personal take on sex, love, friendship, first times, redefining yourself after the floor has ...
Lockdown began with loss. The loss of the man, who had created four magnificent lives with me, making me a mother. Initially lockdown signalled the loss of laughter and a ...
By David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson For far too long, men have ignored, accepted, or even worse, knowingly contributed to a workplace culture that disadvantages women. Yet we do ...
The perimenopause occurs in the years running up to the menopause, which for most women is during the mid to late-40s. The menopause itself technically only lasts one day, which ...
