How i write

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

When it comes to the first five or six pages in any book, the reader can be sure of one thing. These are the pages the writer has gone over again and again. The words you read may flow or stumble forw

You need the hardest of hearts not to love a love story, and one that raises a laugh as the course of true love fails to run smoothly only ups the feelgood factor. This is borne out by the fact that f

GH ’s books director Joanne Finney shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases

Our books editor Zoe West gives us her favourite picks for the month, plus Cathy Bramley shares her writing secrets

Iris climbed down from the donkey cart that had given her a lift from Penzance station, being careful not to ladder her best stockings, and walked up the narrow lane to Nantolven Farm. There was no si