How to write a summer novel (even when it’s winter)
Five ways I managed to bring sunshine into a summer romance when there was ground frost. Oh my God, I miss ground frost!
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Books that are out this summer that aren’t necessarily summer books
Novels about rich people behaving badly and other recent reads I've enjoyed...
The worst, most sucky, good for nothing 24 hours in a writer's year
Or why I hate Publication Day...
A sneak preview of The Love Library!
My new novel publishes in a week. This is the article its heroine Tess writes which gains her admittance to the esteemed and mysterious institution...
Books out in May and June, which made me fall in love with reading again
(Full disclosure: I'm being dramatic. I have never ever, not once, fallen out of love with reading but sometimes I do have a bit of a slump...)
POV: You're the heroine of a Sarra Manning novel
It's a difficult job but someone has to do it....
Novels about fa… fa…fa... fa... fashion
Of course I’m going to see The Devil Wears Prada 2 this week but these are the stylish stories I’d much rather see on the screen...
The book that made me a writer
I didn’t even realise that I was waiting for sometime to give me the permission to write until Virginia Woolf told me I could…
March and April books, which actually made me feel something…
A round up of recent (or soon to be) releases
You might never lose the feeling that you don’t fit in... and stop dicking about with frosted lilac lipstick.
A letter to my teenage self...