Books

Most people will recognise Dilly Carter as the straight talking organiser from BBC’s hit decluttering show Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon. This is how Dilly first appeared on ...

Loneliness is known to be associated with physical and mental illnesses, including high blood pressure, poor sleep, dementia, depression, suicidal ideation and even premature death. A study of the impact ...

I grew up in a Forces family, which meant I’d been to eight schools by the time I was twelve. Forces kids tend to go one of two ways: either ...

Here’s a question: Why is an event or emotion significant if it happens to a man on a battlefield and unimportant if it happens to a woman in her own ...

I always have more than one book on the go – as a reader, not as a writer! Currently it’s Raymond Chandlers The High Window - one of the lesser-known ...

-  1. People may have suspected a connection between the physical brain and emotional behavior as far back as the Stone Age. Archeological findings from the prehistoric era indicate early ...

Many may be used to witnessing horror stories unfold on the big screen, but if they were to look towards books, and this one in particular, there wouldn’t be much ...

My memoir, Freeing Rapunzel: Finding Peace After Trauma in a Divided Homeland, is the story of abuse within a household that echoed what my home nation, Germany, had inflicted on ...

When I was 21, I experienced an incredible depressive episode. I wasn’t new to depression. I have what amounts to a 99 year lease with depression and anxiety. Thankfully it ...

By Eloise Allen It’s all too easy to say to ourselves how we should be feeling, or to tell ourselves we shouldn’t be feeling a certain way. We often hold ...

Said to date back to the last ice age and beyond, the Bock Saga could possibly be the world’s oldest creation myth. Now respected Bock Saga historian and author Carl ...

During the past couple of years, a time when people have been separated from family and friends by repeated lockdowns, I became curious about the number of messages I received ...

7 things I'd like my readers to know about me… hmm, that's a tricky one! I'm rubbish at making decisions at the best of times, but after a lot of ...

If you are troubled by fears and anxiety, have emotional outbursts and find it difficult to reach your goals, you may be holding imprints and scars from your past. Imprints ...

Lets be honest - the clouds are going to come. They're not all going to rain on your parade and neither do they all have silver linings, but they are ...

All my happiest childhood memories involve a dog. My aunt’s dog, Sandy, who let me share his basket. My dad’s dog, Jess, who let me hold her hour-old pups. Growing ...

A spiritual journey is our reconnection to the self. It’s a journey with your soul to deepen the connection to knowledge, understanding and wisdom that we hold in this lifetime. ...

When I was 32 years old, my wife was pregnant with our first son. We were highly impecunious at the time. I.e., we were dead broke. So I decided I ...

-  I hated reading as a child and am still a very slow reader. I didn’t really enjoy reading until I discovered Enid Blyton’s ‘Secret Seven’ books when I was ...

As part of World Poetry Day, we are examining the works of the top eight female poets of literary history and why their contributions are of such importance.  Most famous ...

To celebrate the release of her debut novel, Stone Broke Heiress, we asked author Danielle Owen-Jones to open up not only about the book, but about herself, so readers can get ...

My parents met and married in New Orleans but moved 6 hours away to Houston, Texas. I grew up driving back and forth between the two cities and believing fervently ...

To celebrate the release of her new book The Break-Up Expert, we asked author Sonya Singh to tell us a little bit about her, as part of our 'seven things' series! ...

I had my first baby when I was twenty-four. She was unplanned and I was the first of my friends to have a child and those early days, despite having ...