Books

What would you do if the fate of the world depended on winning an ancient alternate reality game? Would you play even as your fellow players disappeared or turned up ...

My new book, Just Friends, is set on the small Greek island of Antiparos, in the Cyclades. I was lucky enough to visit the island a few years ago, and ...

To be sure, Shakespeare’s version of this saying is far more famous. “Beware the Ides of March” has cast an ominous pall over the infamous date ever since the Bard ...

This week saw the unveiling of the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist, featuring five stunning debuts and eleven other incredible new additions to established authors’ bibliography. All of ...

What would you do if you witnessed a cold-blooded murder whilst your young daughter slept peacefully just a few steps away from where the crime took place? Would you freeze ...

When the premise of a Great Gatsby-esque gothic novel with LGBTQ+ romance and poisonous revenge is presented to you, you don’t turn away. You allow yourself to be sucked into ...

The world is full of meaningful symbols. From the humble triangle to the sacred Om glyph, we work with symbols everyday whether it’s in our spiritual practices or mundane tasks ...

Mum of four Natalie Brown takes part in Female First's 'seven things' series following the release of her telling-it-how-it-is parenting memoir Confessions of a Crummy Mummy - The Baby Years. ...

With so many incredible books on witchcraft and Paganism being released at the moment, it’s no wonder that our days are spent with our finger hovering over the “pre-order” button. ...

We’ve all been embarrassed in a restaurant or hotel when one of the other customers or guests is rude or downright abusive towards the hard-working staff who are only trying ...

This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias - a concept that encourages diversity and intersectionality, while shunning stereotypes that harm feminism. Thus, we’ve decided to shine a spotlight ...

With International Women’s Day quickly approaching, we caught up with book-lover and businesswoman (and former CEO of The Book People) Seni Glaister to discuss her new, ethical project that allows ...

Another World Book Day is nearly over and seeing endless streams of photographs of our friends’ kids dressed as their favourite book characters on social media has inspired us to ...

Claire Frost is the author of Living My Best Life and Married At First Swipe – and her third book, The One, is published today (March 3). Lottie Brown has ...

Growing up, I never thought writing books could be a job. I loved reading though and my dad would take me and my sister to the library every weekend where ...

The modern day workplace is not really cut out for creativity. It’s too stressful! But guess what. Ironically, creativity can have a positive impact on your overall stress levels! Just ...

‘You can’t marry a man you’ve just met.’ If, like me, you spend an inordinate amount of time falling into social-media-cyclones, you’ve probably seen this meme: a sassy still of ...

My father, a Hampshire boy born and bred, loved Scotland, and I remember being fascinated by the way he talked about it. He was a fiercely practical man who was ...

I grew up in Norfolk, the setting of both of my novels and most of my family are still there, in or around Norwich. One of my favourite books as ...

When people ask me what my book is about, I don’t tell them that it’s YA at first. I tell them that it’s set in a world in which the ...

Guilt is a powerful, uncomfortable emotion which can often show up during the experience of single motherhood. Guilt can spill out in so many ways, for example: - Guilt about ...

The modern day workplace is not really cut out for creativity. It’s too stressful! But guess what. Ironically, creativity can have a positive impact on your overall stress levels! Just ...

An eagerly anticipated thriller for 2022, The Paris Apartment is New York Times best seller Lucy Foley’s latest murder mystery which explores the nitty gritty of a rich and secretive ...

This month’s releases that have caught our attention takes us everywhere from Mesoamerica to Pakistan, China and Ukraine. We can already tell March is going to thrill us, break us ...