Laura Freeman – The Reading Cure – How Books Restored My Appetite

Laura Freeman’s The Reading Cure – How Books Restored My Appetite is not a book about anorexia, but one about recovery. And more specifically, about how a love of reading helped her to love life again, and recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia. Reading accounts of how her favourite characters enjoyed food and with it

Reading to wellness

For avid readers, the idea of bibliotherapy is not new at all. Many people feel better after curling up with a good book. There’s a feeling that they are good for the heart and soul, and it’s not unusual to find a feeling of friendship within the page, looking to them for guidance and perspective,

Clare Fisher – All The Good Things

‘What if you did a very bad thing… but that wasn’t the end of the story,’ reads the blurb. It’s never the end of the story. As you might expect from the title All The Good Things, Clare Fisher‘s novel doesn’t take such a straightforward view. This isn’t a book about good things, but the

Hollie McNish tells Folkestone what she wishes she’d been told

First published on WOWKent Hollie McNish is a couple of minutes late to the Folkestone Quarterhouse stage. She keeps peering through the curtains throughout the hour long show. Like she’s not quite fully focused on the audience. Which of course she’s not. Because she’s a mum. And since she unexpectedly became pregnant at the age

Margaret Drabble gets The Novel Cure

‘No one who reads could possibly turn out like Trump.’ At least not according to the prolific and talented Dame Margaret Drabble. And, as author of nineteen novels, twice editor of the Oxford Companion of English Literature, married to Michael Holroyd and younger sister of AS Byatt, she knows a thing or two about reading.