Sometimes a book hits at the right time. The Good Immigrant , edited by Nikesh Shukla and crowdfunded on the publishing platform Unbound, ...

Aliza Licht's Leave Your Mark promises to help give you tips to land your dream job, kill it in your career, and rock social media.  ...

I very rarely cry at books. I'll get sad, my heart will hurt, my eyes might tear up, but it takes a lot for those tears to actually sp...

I've learnt a lot of lessons from 1980s films. From The Breakfast Club I learnt that detention could be cool. From The Princess B...

It's easy to judge people less well off than yourself, to comment on why they might be on benefits, or to wonder why they spend mone...

Cycling has been undergoing a resurgence in the last few years, thanks to Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins et al, but my faith in the worldwide ...

Kirstie Clements is probably not a name people cite when asked to list present and former Vogue editors - those honours go to Anna Wintou...

Your first 'proper' job was probably a challenge, but I doubt you had the added awkwardness of working for the agency that represent...

I'm a 20-something woman (it's rude to ask exactly how old I am) but I'm not afraid to admit that one of my few heroines in li...

Wouldn't life be easy if you had a step by step guide on how to get through it? While Maya Van Wagenen doesn't have a guide to lif...

During 2011 it was difficult to switch on the news without seeing an item about protests and demonstrations against a leader in Africa or ...

Success! After failing the challenge I set myself in 2012, this year turned out much better. Wanting to up the number of non-fiction book...

I love secondhand books, and one of the reasons I love them is for the dedications you sometimes find inside. Who gifted the book? Who r...

You know how it is, you're in a queue, and someone stands next to you, instead of behind you. Are they queuing or just loitering? Are ...

Even if you don't follow fashion, you've probably heard of Anna Wintour, if only from the film or book The Devil Wears Prada . Whi...

From princesses to witches to Bridget Jones, the fictional women in our lives are numerous and different, and it's impossible not to t...

With its huge skyscrapers, constant traffic and jam-packed streets, it's easy to forget that London does have its quieter, less manic ...

Five years ago 10 young terrorists took one of the world's best-known cities - Mumbai - hostage. For three days they set off bombs, sh...