Celeb authors

We tend to imagine our literary icons in ivory towers – poised, thoughtful, wrapped in something muted and cashmere, tapping away at sleek laptops. Perhaps it’s how you picture yourself when attemptin

Famed for her love of horses, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, is a former European three-day event champion and a strong supporter of Riding for the Disabled. Perhaps, then, it was inevitable that

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

The folk horror novelist still finds this writing business “excruciating”…

L If they’re ever looking to recruit spies, forget handsome, fit, blue-eyed Bonds. Forget gym-buffed Daniel, impossibly good-looking Tom and danger magnet Matt. Look instead for a middle-aged woman in

Broadcaster and author Clare Balding shares the reads that have been her escape and inspiration