OK, I can't deny it, I'm a nosey parker. Being a fiction writer I can excuse myself on the grounds of collecting material. That's why I'm so intrigued by people and the things they d...

My first reaction to Susan Tiberghien's One Year To A Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art And Craft was to say out loud that this book was the next best thing to actual...

  Dave Hill's novel, The Adoption, was one of those books I couldn't put down, and read in a few close sittings. One of the things which struck me was the ability to describe domestic ...

In the first few pages of Dead Lovely we discover that its narrator is not only a murderess, but a hedonistic adulterous one with a habit of giving blow jobs to her best friend’s husband while ...

When I was 13, I was in youth CND. I watched all the videos and read all the leaflets and worried that the planet would be destroyed by nuclear war. But I was young and optimistic and I never really ...

  Oliver Moon is a favourite in our house, so I got an enthusiastic response when I asked my nearly-six-year-old son Felix if he’d like to help me review his two latest adventures - Olive...

  As soon as you meet the victim of the crime - Stapled Stan - you know this book won’t be a standard or boring detective thriller. Stapled Stan has a dick full of staples and a life full ...

      Have you ever decided that someone you met online was your soulmate? Or that they were really cool and had to be your friend? Or even that they were the devil incarnate?   A...

  These poems are sometimes sharp and sometimes gentle. Often they pull you with smells and images into a land of nostalgia, so that you too can feel the warmth of someone else’s memories...

  Apparently, Greek gods are pretty badly-behaved creatures. I say apparently, because… oh all right, I admit it. I know nothing about Greek mythology. I know I should. I don’...

  Sadie feels bored, put upon and fed up with the weekly drudge of feeding the baby, mollifying the toddler and sitting at the end of the phone on a Friday night as her not-husband tries to exc...

My Boyfriend is a Twat is the stupendously successful blog of Zoe McCarthy, also known as Zed. People keep giving her awards and stuff. And now The Friday Project have twisted her arm and talked her i...

As the author I dont think it is far that i write a review saying how good it is. Therefore I have used the back cover as an example telling you what the book is about. It is a light hearted look at l...