From Mother to Mother: Recipes from a Family Kitchen with Lisa Faulkner
Lisa Faulkner joined us at Hive to catch up and share some insights and her favourite recipe from her new book From Mother to Mother: Recipes from a Family Kitchen. Do you ever take inspiration from...
View ArticleNature’s Party Starts Here – by Author Mark Ward
Mark Ward, author of Wildlife on Your Doorstep published by Reed New Holland this spring, reveals the wildlife delights you can find close to home this spring. After a sluggish start in March, nature...
View ArticleBill’s Blog – Come on Chelsea!!!
How well I recall my first visit to The Chelsea Flower Show. As I was leaving ,a young lady from local radio stuck a microphone in my face and asked me : “So was this your first time?” Yes, I replied....
View ArticleHive Talkin’ with Author Ruth Ware
We caught up with best selling author Ruth Ware talking about her writing life as she marks the release of her brand new book The Lying Game. Does writing energize or exhaust you? Wow, ok I haven’t...
View Article10 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About The Suffragettes
When I started writing Things a Bright Girl Can Do, a young adult novel about three teenage girls and the Suffragette movement, I knew little about the Suffragettes beyond what I was taught at school....
View Article5 Amazing Christmas Lecture facts About the Natural World
5 Amazing Christmas Lecture facts about the natural world The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have become a Christmas institution themselves, as much a part of the festivities as mince pies and...
View ArticleChristmas Poems
Christmas Poems For me, the greatest gift of the Christmas season is time to read. The offices and schools are closed. The weather is often appalling. The nights are long and dark and seem designed...
View ArticleHive’s Top 10 Sellers in 2017
Our top 10 selling titles of 2017 on Hive. #1 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls What if the jealous step sisters were supportive and kind? And what if the queen was the one really in charge of the...
View ArticleWhy it’s important for kids to see themselves in books – Hayley Scott
Why it’s important for kids to see themselves in books How important is it to see ourselves in stories? To see people, or families like ours in stories? For me, I never realised quite how important it...
View ArticleMelinda Salisbury on Finding Inspiration and The Importance of Fantasy Worlds
Sorrow Ventaxis was born from a line in a Florence and the Machine song. It began in 2015, when I was supposed to be working on the sequel to The Sin Eater’s Daughter. I’d gone away on a trip to...
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