I never gave up on my writing dream

Samantha Walker-Roberts’ nightmare began when she was groomed online aged 12 by a man posing as a teenager. After months of messaging, the predator, a 34-year-old former teacher, abused her in his spo

Paula Hawkins shares what makes a great page-turner as she launches Prima ’s 2025 short story writing competition

A short while after we married, Tom and I made the decision to leave behind our hectic London lives and relocate to the tranquillity of rural living. We wanted a slower pace of life where the countrys

‘Sam is asleep. I could kill him now.’ These are the opening eight words of my first novel, Eeny Meeny, published a lifetime ago in 2014, which launched fearless crime fighter, Detective Inspector Hel

HOW quickly Sylvia’s life had changed! At New Year, she’d wished that the next 12 months would mean better health for her grandmother, a new washing machine for her mother and, if at all possible, a p

‘I’m not a therapist,’ says Cecelia Ahern, ‘but I do know what it’s like to put everyone else first for so long, you almost disappear.’ It’s this quiet, universal truth that sits at the core of Paper