Everyone I know wants more sleep. The youngsters want to sleep in, the party animals in their twenties are recovering from big nights out, and those of us with children below waist-height are desperate for an uninterrupted slumber. Except me. I’ve been working with a nutritionist recently, for a health feature I’m writing, and she’s […]
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Egg-freezing 'perks': a step towards equality, or away from it?
Two of the world’s most influential companies, Apple and Facebook, plan to introduce an unusual perk to their female employees. Concerned about your declining fertility, while you pursue a career? No matter, because they’ll pay to freeze your eggs until you’re ready to use them. On the face of it, it’s a brilliant idea. Women […]
Book review: Good Girls Don't Die
“Accused of grassing up a fellow police officer and driven out of her home and her job, Grace fisher is thankful to make a new start with the Major Investigation Team in Essex. A female student is missing, last seen at a popular bar in Colchester. When a second student, also out drinking, is murdered […]
Research matters
Research is one of my favourite things about being a writer. I hate the idea that my books might be inaccurate, and whilst I don’t believe facts should necessarily get in the way of a good story, I do think it’s important to make an informed decision about whether artistic licence should be employed. I didn’t […]
Book review: Dear Daughter, by Elizabeth Little
I picked up a copy of Dear Daughter at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, but didn’t have a chance to read it until a month later. I finished it twenty-four hours later, having completely neglected the family, the house, and the dog. Janie Jenkins has just been released from prison, after her conviction for the murder of […]
Foreign rights, a new school year, and good intentions
I’m a big fan of September. There’s something about the smell of sharpened pencils that makes me twice as productive as other times of the year, not least because the school holidays which precede it have usually trained me to fit my work in to much less time than normal. Sadly, by the time October […]